>>Patrick Swayze made a million hearts flutter - playing lead roles in such movie hits as Dirty Dancing and Ghost. Then in January this year, Patrick Swayze had pancreatic cancer, one of the world's most aggressive cancers that has a 5 per cent survival rate.
Patrick reportedly underwent Cyber Knife treatment - the latest radiation surgery to treat cancer.
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Ashley Mackinnon is a chef. His wife Leah died from liver failure following ongoing chemotherapy. But treatment using Cyber Knife technology in Oaklahoma USA was a success. Ashley is now trying to pressure the Federal Government to buy Cyber Knife machines for use in Australia.----
from the Yahoo board:
A few comments:
1. As CyberKnife continues to get amazing results, the incredible worldwide publicity machine for CyberKnife continues as well.
2. This Aussie article is particularly effective in that it gives a sampling of patients with different forms of cancer who were all told they were out of options but were nevertheless able to extend their lives with good quality of life after getting treated by CyberKnife.
3. The article also underscores a point I have hammered on here for months on end, i.e., that CyberKnife is a patient-driven phenomenon.
4. Pressure is mounting from the patient community on healthcare systems worldwide to provide CyberKnife.
5. Just like Kleenex is to tissue (or Xerox was to photocopy), CyberKnife is fast becoming (or may have already become) synonymous with stereotactic radiosurgery. Vairan isn’t even showing up in the discussion.
6 .I’m sure glad that we didn’t have a socialized healthcare system in the United States these past 10 years or so because if we did, CyberKnife would never have happened. From this article and numerous other reports from around the world, it is more than obvious that government-run systems are even more averse than HMOs and insurance companies to the spending money necessary to keep up with technological breakthroughs.
1. As CyberKnife continues to get amazing results, the incredible worldwide publicity machine for CyberKnife continues as well.
2. This Aussie article is particularly effective in that it gives a sampling of patients with different forms of cancer who were all told they were out of options but were nevertheless able to extend their lives with good quality of life after getting treated by CyberKnife.
3. The article also underscores a point I have hammered on here for months on end, i.e., that CyberKnife is a patient-driven phenomenon.
4. Pressure is mounting from the patient community on healthcare systems worldwide to provide CyberKnife.
5. Just like Kleenex is to tissue (or Xerox was to photocopy), CyberKnife is fast becoming (or may have already become) synonymous with stereotactic radiosurgery. Vairan isn’t even showing up in the discussion.
6 .I’m sure glad that we didn’t have a socialized healthcare system in the United States these past 10 years or so because if we did, CyberKnife would never have happened. From this article and numerous other reports from around the world, it is more than obvious that government-run systems are even more averse than HMOs and insurance companies to the spending money necessary to keep up with technological breakthroughs.
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