Cyberknife Cancer Center at Memorial Hospital

Delivering on a promise to deliver “Tomorrow’s medicine for the First Coast,” Memorial Health has built a center that offers cancer patients a highly effective but much less invasive alternative to traditional radiation therapies. The image-guided Cyberknife works in real time, compensating for natural motions like a patient’s respiratory activity. A rotating manipulator positions in multiple directions, making it easier to reach tumors in all parts of the body. A huge advantage is the ballistic nature of the technology: Radiologists at the Memorial Hospital Cyberknife Center can deliver radiation with pinpoint, sub-millimeter accuracy and little or no damage to surrounding tissue. High cure rates, shortened treatment schedules, and almost no discomfort during or after treatment have made this a very attractive alternative for cancer patients and their physicians.

Cyberknife Cancer Center Quick Facts

• Treatment is painless, bloodless, and anesthesia-free.
  
• There is no head frame fixed to the patient’s skull.
  
• 4-D imaging helps make treatment safer, faster, more accurate, and more comfortable for patients.
  
• Tumors anywhere in the body, including the spine, lung, prostate, liver, and pancreas, can be easily reached.
  
• Patients can resume normal activities immediately after treatment.
  
• Treatment can be completed in one to five days.
  
• The Cyberknife Center at Memorial Hospital has recorded high success rates in difficult-to-cure cancers, including the pancreas, liver and lungs.
  
• Patients with previously inoperable or surgically complex tumors can often be successfully treated with CyberKnife technology.
  
• The Center is a world leader in lung cancer radiation therapy.