IN THIS SECTION CyberKnife Home Prostate Cancer Signs and Symptoms Treatment Comparison Video Educator

Radical Prostatectomy

CyberKnife Radiosurgery Advantages:

• Non-invasive outpatient treatment, with rapid recovery
• There is no hospital admission and
• No post-operative recovery
• A patient may rapidly resume normal activity
• Advanced age or coexisting medical conditions that may preclude surgical treatment do not impede the ability to receive CyberKnife treatment

External Beam Radiotherapy

CyberKnife Radiosurgery Advantages:

• Compared with external beam radiotherapy, which takes approximately two months to complete, the CyberKnife approach takes one week to complete
• The CyberKnife therapeutic margin is “surgical” compared with any form of external radiotherapy, potentially reducing complications, by reducing the relative radiation dose to bladder and rectum

Permanent Source Prostate Brachytherapy

CyberKnife Radiosurgery Advantages:

• The CyberKnife approach is non-invasive treatment
• Leaves no radioactive foreign bodies in the prostate
• The CyberKnife urologic recovery appears more rapid
• There is less potential for long-term urinary obstruction

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