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.