The First CyberKnife for Poland

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Under the Patronage of His Excellency Robert Kupiecki, the Ambassador of Poland, and the Honorary Committee, including the U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (Maryland), Congressman John D. Dingell (Michigen) and Lady Blanka Rosenstiel (Florida)

Event: Gala Fundraiser – CyberKnife for Poland

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland
2640 16th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009

The First CyberKnife for Poland

The CyberKnife, a sophisticated robotic radiosurgery system, is a nonsurgical, painless technology that can reduce or eliminate certain lesions and tumors, many previously considered inoperable anywhere in the human body. It integrates a robotically controlled mobile linear accelerator with a state-of-the-art image-guidance system, and can also offer significantly fewer complications and a lower risk than classical “open” surgery by integrating a robotically controlled mobile linear accelerator with a state-of-the-art image-guidance system.

As a radiosurgery tool capable of delivering highly precise high dose radiation without cumbersome or painful stereotactic frames, the CyberKnife extends the use of radiosurgery beyond brain tumors into various regions of the body including the spine, lung, pancreas, liver and prostate.

Professor Wojciech Maksymowicz, a world-recognized neurosurgeon, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn, Poland, is the initiator and organizer of the purchase of the first CybernKnife for Poland.

This system is so effective that with only one CyberKnife, Polish doctors may perform more than 120 treatments each month, giving patients with hard-to-reach or difficult tumors another significant option of treatment and new hope for the future.

Recently, the Polish American Health Association (PAHA) initiated a fundraising program to support the purchase of the first CyberKnife for Poland.

Distinguished guests Professor Wojciech Maksymowicz and Dr. Leszek Dudzinski from Poland will be present.

For additional information concerning the CyberKnife please contact Dr. Wlodek Lopaczynski (301) 983- 1192.