Kazuhiko Hayashi, Osamu Suzuki, Hiroya Shiomi, Hitoshi Ono, Akira Setoguchi, Masataka Nakai, Erina Nakanishi, Shotaro Tatekawa, Naoko Ose, Takero Hirata, Keisuke Tamari, Yuji Seo, Soichiro Funaki, Fumiaki Isohashi, Shinichi Shimizu, Yasushi Shintani, Kazuhiko Ogawa
BACKGROUND: The CyberKnife system features a robotically-positioned linear accelerator to deliver real-time image-guided stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR). It achieves steep dose gradients using irradiation from hundreds of different directions and increases the central dose of the gross tumor volume (GTV) without increasing the marginal dose to the planning target volume. We evaluated the effectiveness and safety of SABR with a central high dose using CyberKnife for metastatic lung tumors...
March 7, 2023: BMC Cancer