CyberKnife News
Innovative Cancer Treatment Close to Home
Cancer treatment is constantly evolving and improving. At Southeast Georgia
Health System, we keep up to date on the latest advances in oncology,
radiology, radiosurgery and CyberKnife cancer treatment. Read the below
CyberKnife news to learn how the Health System has been featured as leading
CyberKife experts in our field!
Powerful Precision, Shorter Treatment
November, 2017 - Southeast Georgia Health System is the only center in
Georgia to offer the CyberKnife® M6™ series, a robotic radiation
delivery system, featuring enhanced precision that shortens treatment
times. “CyberKnife offers sub-millimeter precision, which allows
for higher doses and substantially shortened treatment duration,”
says Timothy A. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., a board-certified radiation oncologist
and medical director of the Health System’s Cancer Care Centers
and CyberKnife program. “Not only is it convenient, it’s very
effective.”
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Southeast Georgia Health System joins the ranks of the world's most
advanced cancer fighters with its new CyberKnife® System
Winter 2011 - What do you call a treatment to remove cancer that can be
performed without scalpels, stitches or anesthesia? A great new option,
says Timothy A. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., a board-certified radiation oncologist
with Southeast Georgia Health System who is among a growing number of
cancer fighters performing this non-invasive procedure. The new tool he
uses that’s revolutionizing cancer care is called CyberKnife®,
the world’s first minimally invasive, robotic radiosurgery system
designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body without making a single cut.
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CyberKnife® "valid option" for low-risk prostate cancer: study
January 13, 2011 - A follow-up study using CyberKnife stereotactic body
radiation for low-risk prostate cancer found most patients had disease-free
survival after five years, with little toxicity, results that researchers
say could help bolster support for the treatment.
"In our mind, it's no longer investigational or experimental therapy,"
study co-author Dr. Debra E. Freeman, a radiation oncologist with CyberKnife
Centers of Tampa Bay in Florida, told DOTmed News. "It's a valid
option in the treatment of low-risk prostate cancer."
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System Takes Positive Step to Maintain Health
December 3, 2010 - Southeast Georgia Health System is making a giant investment
in the community and in the health of its people. It will soon offer one
of the most technologically advanced weapons in the fight against life-threatening
tumors and cancer: CyberKnife.
The accuracy of the robotic device, installed at the Cancer Care Center
at the Brunswick hospital Tuesday, in unrivaled in its accuracy in delivering
radiation directly to invading cancer cells.
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Hospital Has New Cancer Weapon
December 2, 2010 - Cancer patients in Southeast Georgia will have access
to high-dose radiation treatment with pinpoint accuracy when a new robot
radiotherapy machine is put into use at Southeast Georgia Health System.
The $4 million CyberKnife system - only the second in the state - uses
a robotic arm to treat tumors found anywhere in the body by delivering
from 100 to 200 radiation beams from multiple angles. During treatment,
X-ray cameras provide physicians with instant feedback on the movement
of a patient or tumor for accurate targeting.
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CyberKnife® Comes to Southeast Georgia
Fall 2010 - Many area cancer patients will soon have the option of having
their tumors treated using a painless, noninvasive procedure. In June
2010, the Georgia Department of Community Health approved Southeast Georgia
Health System’s Certificate of Need (CON) application to obtain
the CyberKnife System—the world’s first minimally invasive,
robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body
without any cutting involved. Final installation preparations are now
underway, and Health System officials expect to have the system in place
and operational by the end of January 2011.
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Hospital to Get Tumor Treatment Robot
June 22, 2010 - Southeast Georgia Health System’s hospital in Brunswick
will soon be one of only two in the state to offer CyberKnife® technology,
a minimally invasive, robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors
without cutting a patient. The health system said the Georgia Department
of Community Health approved its Certificate of Need request to offer
the CyberKnife®. It should be installed and operational at the hospital
in November. "Currently, there are only about 200 CyberKnife®
systems in the world and until our CON was approved, the only one in Georgia
was at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta," radiation oncologist
Timothy A. Jamieson said.
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