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Anyone Have Experience With Cyberknife For Blasting A Liver Tumor?

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Subject: Anyone have experience with Cyberknife for blasting a liver tumor?
Date: 12/17/2007

Hi,

I have rectal cancer metastasized to the liver (I posted this on the rectal cancer link, but no one has answered- thought maybe I'd have luck under the liver cancer heading).  Anyhow- I have another chemo round (#9) & will be scanned again & then my oncologist will be talking w/ specialists re. surgery on my original rectal tumor site and on my one remaining liver tumor.  The oncologist was excited about the possibility of CyberKnife (which is fairly new to San Diego Co., where I'm from) vs. traditional liver resection. He said it shows to be very effective & wouln't require surgery. He said the specialists will need to decide which will be best for me, though, but I'm wondering if anyone has undergone Cyberknife.  If you don't know, Cyberknife is a precise radiation with a gold bead being inserted in or on the tumor & a robotic arm blasts the tumor from several directions & supposedly blasts the tumor away without the damage or traditional radiation or surgery.  Anyone have any info on it??

Lisa

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