London’s Harley Street Clinic, one of the UK’s foremost centres for cancer medicine, has now taken delivery of the revolutionary CyberKnife cancer treatment machine the first one of it kind in Britain.
Testing and training is taking place, with the first patient likely to be treated in mid February 2009.
The CyberKnife is effectively a compact linear accelerator mounted on the so- called futuristic Picasso’ robot and can treat tumours more accurately than before.
The Harley Street Clinic, one of HCA International’s six acute hospitals in the Capital, has teamed up with London’s leading cancer experts to create a new world class treatment centre in the heart of London’s medical district.
The machine is part of a £15 million development programme for The Harley Street Clinic complex and is based at 81 Harley Street at the world renowned Cancer Centre. The CyberKnife works in conjunction with CT cancer mapping technology and calculates how much radiotherapy a tumour needs to destroy all cancer cells without harming surrounding tissue.
Having mapped the tumour in 3D, a patient will l…
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