Kellie,
How many tumors did your dad have that were treated with Cyberknife & how is he doing now that some time has passed? I am meeting with a liver specialist Thursday May 1st to discuss the liver resection he wants to do on me. I have 3 tumors (which did not show "hot" on the recent PET scan as they had on one months earlier, meaning they didn't seem to be cancerous any longer). Anyhow, two of them are in my left lobe & one in the right lobe. I read that liver resection is still considered the "gold standard" for liver tumors, but I know the number of people using Cyberknife must be picking up. Yet, there isn't much I see on the internet comparing the success rate of cyberknife vs. liver resection. I'd like to look into cyberknife, but am wondering if the resection would be better for me in the long term. I'm currently considered cancer free other than these three seemingly downgraded to noncancerous tumors (my rectal tumor completely vanished from the IMRT radiation on it). Any follow up info would be helpful. Was your father pressured by any doctors to have liver resection surgery before he decided on Cyberknife? Just curious. Thanks-
Lisa