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Lani · 10-09-2009, 03:31 PM

3D conformal IMRT sterotactic radiosurgery (Varian brand is the machine that my rads onc uses) is equally as adept for treating bone and brain mets as Cyber, so efficacy is a non-issue and safety is not any different with IMRT. Cyberknife is just a brand name of the same technology, but the machine operates a little differently. Varian type IMRT srs is not as expensive as Cyber.

can you cite articles on each of these statements?

Also perhaps needing to be considered is the possibility that the radiation targetting may not be as exact when there are several different sessions as
despite masks,beanbags, etc there may and probably are differences in postioning and therefore the area targeted from day to day

10-09-2009, 03:31 PM	#3
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,778	Re: now bean counters looking at radiation therapy vs cyberknife 3D conformal IMRT sterotactic radiosurgery (Varian brand is the machine that my rads onc uses) is equally as adept for treating bone and brain mets as Cyber, so efficacy is a non-issue and safety is not any different with IMRT. Cyberknife is just a brand name of the same technology, but the machine operates a little differently. Varian type IMRT srs is not as expensive as Cyber. can you cite articles on each of these statements? Also perhaps needing to be considered is the possibility that the radiation targetting may not be as exact when there are several different sessions as despite masks,beanbags, etc there may and probably are differences in postioning and therefore the area targeted from day to day