CyberKnife® - Revolutionising cancer treatment

Mr Andrew Gaya, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the London CyberKnife Centre, believes that the technology that enables him to perform robotic radiosurgery has brought about a revolution in the way that some cancer can be treated. The CyberKnife® system allows tumours to be targeted with hundreds of pencil-thin beams of radiation that are delivered with sub-millimetre accuracy. This means that it is now possible to treat tumours that were previously considered untreatable. He says, “Most advances in cancer treatment are small steps forward, but occasionally there is a giant leap.”