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Le Mans Cancer Center receives “CyberKnife” certification

Le Mans Cancer Center receives “CyberKnife” certification

11:58 by Jonathan Latour

Do you know “CyberKnife”? Thanks to its accuracy, this device can attack cancerous tumors that previously left patients with no chance of recovery. The Sarthe Cancer Center in Le Mans has just been equipped.

CyberKnife : At first glance, the name might be intimidating. But on the contrary Life saving equipment : a state-of-the-art robot in the treatment of cancer by means of radiotherapy, which has just been received by the new cancer center in Sarthe. This is the 25th operational sample in France, The only one in Pays-de-la-Loire. The jewel of technology that will allow for significant progress in some patients: “There are patients who may have it, for example Lung tumors or brain metastases, who are patients who are unable to undergo surgery or refuse certain curative treatments, we will now be able to offer them this alternative. For some of them, we’ll have 80 or 90% efficiency. Patients who unfortunately died from the progression of their diseaseexplains Dr. Johan Poyntreau, who hopes to be able to It now treats about 200 to 250 cases a yearwith the ambition to achieve it Up to 400 people a year. Once things are going, “Within a year or two” According to him.

Dr. Yoann Poyntreau recalls the “Cyber ​​Knife”:
at Le Mans, "cyberknife"

Ultra-precise device, wide field of application

Another interesting point is accuracy “CyberKnife” expands the scope of this new tool beyond cancer cases : We take One-tenth of a millimeter accurateit opens up prospects for treatments such as trigeminal neuralgia, a disease that causes severe facial pain: CyberKnife technology makes it possible Destroy the area of ​​the ganglion that is causing these pains without destroying anything else around it Dr. Fabrice Dennis argues, also quoting “The ability for this machine to follow the movements of the element we want to process” And thus who will authorize the treatment “Some heart conditions, for example, are very disturbing, which generate rhythms at three hundred beats per minute.” By tracking down the cause of the problem and neutralizing it. “What to attack, therefore, are the non-cancerous indications, which we know we will have very good competence in” Professor Dennis confirms, hinting, indeed, The acquisition, by its founding, of a sec “CyberKnife” within three years.

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