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Cyberknife for Prostate Cancer - Our Experience

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We (Sinai Hospital Radiation Oncology in conjunction with Advanced Urology Associates) have now been performing Cyberknife Stereotactic Radiosurgery (CK SRS) for prostate cancer for just over 18 months. There have been over 50 men in that time that have had their prostate cancer treated by CK SRS. And while it is too early to make any judgements about the long term efficacy of the treatment, there are a number of observances that can be made. The first is that overall, there are less side effects with CK SRS than the other options for radiation therapy. It appears that the percentage of men having profound symptoms from radiation are far fewer in number than with seed implantation or even IMRT. Most men have transient frequency and urgency of urination that is well controlled with medications such as flomax or uroxatrol.… read more

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