The Future (and Now) of Surgery is Non-Invasive
April 02 2008 / by Accel Rose / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Health & Medicine Year: 2008 Rating: 1
In the future patients with tumors and lesions will be able to walk into a doctor’s office, sit down in a chair, have the anomaly zapped non-invasively by an array of radiation beams that converge at a single point inside their body, chat with the doctors the whole way through, then get up, say thank you and drive themselves home.
If that sounds amazing to you then you’ll be even more surprised to discover that this hi-tech treatment already exists and has been occurring for several months already.
Since its Fall 2007 release, a virtual surgery platform called CyberKnife that combines embedded tumor sensing, 3D imaging and concentrated radiation bursts has been gaining considerable popularity. Surgeons all over the globe have been reporting great success with the device which makes it much easier to target certain areas of the lungs and brain.
Check out this short MedWatch segment to see for yourself:
To get a sense of how the radiation beams work together, take a look at this promotional video by the manufacturer:
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