Gamma Knife, Cyber Knife. What else is there to treat cancer?

New Cancer Treatment Abroad

According to world statistics, at least 50% of cancer patients are currently receiving radiation therapy. It is expected that in the near future their number will increase to 60-70%. This is due to the fact that it became possible to achieve the desired result without the use of surgical methods, which sometimes (when removing the tumor) lead to deep disability.

Only about five years since radiosurgery became a practice of large medical centers in the USA and Western Europe, and recently a radiosurgery center has also appeared in Georgia. And excellent results have already been demonstrated a lot of patients with tumors of different localization. A better program for using a high dose of radiation allows you to very accurately distribute it in tumors of the lungs, brain, spine and other organs. At the same time, adjacent tissues receive minimal exposure.

Benefits of the new methodology

Since the treatment is carried out in the mode of short-term, very powerful and accurate exposure, the tissue in the affected area is irreversibly damaged. Therefore, focusing the beam flux with submillimeter accuracy in the EDGE system is indeed difficult to overestimate. This allows you to act on the neuroma of the cranial nerve without risking damage to nearby vital centers. And to increase the accuracy of the effect on the internal organs - in them, by the method of minimally invasive procedures, X-ray contrast “marks” are implanted. By increasing the radiation dose, the session is reduced to several minutes, and the built-in monitoring and fixation tools allow you to focus the radiation target, taking into account its smallest displacements caused by the work of internal organs and breathing.

In addition, the patient posture fixation system is much more comfortable. So, during brain radiosurgery, during the session, the patient is in a mask that does not close his eyes. Radiosurgical treatment with the EDGE system is performed in inoperable patients, in patients with contraindications for surgical treatment, or when placing tumors in hard-to-reach areas. These are benign and malignant, primary and metastatic:

• brain tumors
• spinal tumors
• tumors of the spine, head and neck
• lung and liver tumors
• tumors of the prostate and pancreas
• adrenal tumors

More detailed information on radiosurgical treatment can be found on the website https://polymedex.org Indications for treatment with the EDGE system are determined by a consultation of specialists (oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, chemotherapists) according to the results of the examination. In each case, an individual plan of radiosurgical treatment is selected. The dose and mode of radiation delivery are selected taking into account the nature and size of the tumor, its histological characteristics and the general condition of the patient.

The advantages of radiosurgery on an EDGE linear accelerator are:

• the ability to explore 2D, 3D and 4D images, both during treatment planning and during it;
• built-in system for precise control of the image of the tumor and adjacent structures;
• innovative computer software for planning and implementing treatment for microstructural manipulations in patients with tumors of the brain and spinal cord;
• the availability of an affordable regimen for the treatment of lung tumors, including the function of accurate tracking of respiration;
• the ability to simultaneously treat several neoplasms in different parts of the body;
• automated control of the compliance of the process with the planned treatment regimen;
• constant monitoring of the patient's condition;
• Minimum session duration with ultra-precise technology.
• an abrupt decrease in radiation power outside the tumor, which ensures the safety of treatment;
• the possibility of treating intracranial and extracranial tumors;
• ultra-high micromillimeters accuracy of dose delivery to the tumor area;
• ultra-precise robotic patient positioning system;
• six-degree patient freedom table integrated with EDGE;
• ultra-precise optical system for monitoring the correspondence of the shape of the radiation flux and the shape of the tumor in real time.

Radiosurgery with the linear accelerator EDGE - a new level of reliability and accuracy in a number of modern methods of radiation therapy, when often other treatment methods are often impossible. Information about this technology is available from Polymedex experts or at https://polymedex.org