Joan, Lung Cancer Survivor
To help Joan maintain her lifestyle, her doctors decided to use the CyberKnife® System to treat the remaining tumor. She underwent her CyberKnife treatments over the course of three days, with each procedure taking approximately two hours.
"I just went in, laid down and slept," explained Joan, who is now cancer-free. "It didn't hurt. It was just like I had rested for a few hours—almost like a spa day. The treatment was so easy and let me get right back to life as usual."
"I wish the CyberKnife
Paul Sayer, Cancer Survivor
For nearly 40 years, Paul Sayer has suffered from schizophrenia, a disease that requires permanent residential care at a nearby VA hospital. The optimal course of radiation therapy for his cancerous tumor would require 30 treatments, which his doctors feared would be far too demanding a schedule due to Paul’s mental illness. BMC’s CyberKnife was Paul’s only hope. Extremely precise, the CyberKnife can administer doses of radiation so powerful that Paul could be treated after only five visits to the hospital.