Compared to other radiosurgical treatments, the CyberKnife offers several advantages to patients, including rapid relief from pain and other symptoms. Recovery is often immediate, given its low risk of complications and damage to healthy tissue.

Treatments are performed on an outpatient basis, with each treatment lasting between 30 and 60 minutes.

The number of treatments vary depending on the tumor size, location and shape but typically only one to five daily sessions are required. The CyberKnife allows patients to lie comfortably on the procedure table without anesthesia while the robotic arm moves, without touching them, to treat all areas of the tumor.

CyberKnife treatment utilizes a team approach where medical experts collaborate with you as their central focus. Team members may include a surgeon, radiation oncologist, medical oncologist, medical physicist, nurse, radiation therapist and other team members within the clinic.

The CK Society has produced a very informative patient education video that can be viewed online. The video gives an overview of the technology, and the patient treatment process for Head and Brain Lesions, Spinal Lesions and Lung and other Soft Tissue Lesions.