June 21, 2008: Najeeb Mohideen, MD, Radiation Oncology, Northwest Community Hospital
“The Role of Cyberknife Radiosurgery in Prostate Cancer”
The rationale to use a high dose per fraction of
radiation in Prostate cancer; the concept of hypofractionation; the
advanced technology that enables Cyberknife in image guidance and tumor
tracking during treatment; the process involved in getting a patient
from planning to actual treatment delivery; the side effects and
results; the protocol now open at Northwest Community Hospital.
Also the role of Cyberknife in metastatic disease.