Many people are touched by Cancer. The word it’s self has profound effects. Our team at body by nature are committed in helping as much as we can by supplying the very best information about the different views and ways of fighting this awful disease. In the month of April our team attended a fund raising event where we helped raise more than £20’000 to go towards buying a Cyber knife machine. This machine helps people with early stage cancer.
How CyberKnife works;
The CyberKnife has X-ray cameras that monitor the position of the tumour and sensors that monitor the patient’s breathing. This enables the robot to reposition the radiotherapy beam during treatment in order to minimise damage to healthy tissue. CyberKnife moves with the patient’s breathing and can track a moving tumour.
Because of its pinpoint accuracy CyberKnife allows larger fractions (doses) of radiotherapy to be delivered, meaning that the patient requires fewer hospital visits. For example, visits for lung cancer patients could be reduced from 30 to three; for prostate cancer patients visits could potentially be reduced from 37 to five and visits for palliative radiotherapy could be reduced from ten to one.