Denver cyberknife

from the IV MB, by gila_munster1:

>>Denver CyberKnife

July 2nd, 2009


I have recently accepted a new position in a brand new clinic opening in South Denver called Denver CyberKnife. It is exciting as it is a new learning experience for me and will be a challenging new role as CyberKnife Coordinator. This is a disconnect from everything I have been doing up until this point. I will be more managerial and organizational in this role, instead of “nursy”. I will still be performing a small nursing role with educating my patients and administering medications on a limited basis.

CyberKnife technology is truly amazing. I hadn’t really known what it was or what it could do until I accepted my new role. CyberKnife performs stereotactic radiosurgery. Big fancy words for using very high doses of radiation to obliterate tumors in the body. Not to be confused with Gammaknife, that is only approved for intracranial use. Also, not to be confused with standard radiation therapy. CyberKnife is used on tumors in the brain, spine, lung, prostate, live, pancreas and other tissues in the body. Not yet approved for breast tumors, but studies are being done presently to see if it will be approved in the future. Not only does it obliterate tumors, it does this with sub-millimeter accuracym which means that we can treat the tumor with radiation without damaging the healthy tissue surrounding the tumor.

The linear accelerator (machine that produces the radiation beam) is mounted to a robotic arm that is linked with multiple computer programs that can track the movement of the tumor during treatment. It is hard to explain in a few sentences, so I will link you to our website to learn more. Let me tell you though, it is truyl impressive to watch. The success rate is huge and to do this with no pain or blood and minimal side effects is amazing!

Our commercial will be playing on local stations starting July 6th, but you can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vUbbK5kNE

Our website is very informational www.denverck.com. We have videos that can show the process the patient goes through as well as the treatment itself. It is truly amazing to watch in person.

We have named our CyberKnife robotic arm Ray, and you can follow Ray on twitter at www.twitter.com/denverck. He tweets often about the occurences in the office and educates it’s followers about the treatments.

You can also become a fan on facebook http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/pages/Lone-Tree-CO/Denver-CyberKnife/114495996141?ref=ts

I am so excited to be a part of this cutting edge technology that looks like it should be in the new Star Trek movie. Please learn more about where the future of medicine lies…