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CyberKnife for Early Stage

Lung Cancer -

A Blockbuster Breakthrough

Though its name may conjure up pictures of scalpels and surgery, the CyberKnife treatment for lung cancer involves no cutting, no pain and no bleeding.

CyberKnife is the world's first and only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat benign and malignant tumors, even lung cancers, non-invasively.  CyberKnife is a precise robotic radiation machine combined with exquisitely accurate imaging.

What does this mean for patients with early stage lung cancers?  Patients can be treated in 3 - 5 sessions over 1 week.  Each outpatient session takes about 45 minutes and patients can drive themselves to and from each treatment.    

With the CyberKnife, lung cancer control rates leapfrogged to

75 - 90% compared to conventional radiation rates of 25 - 40%.  And lung cancer survival nearly tripled at the 5 year mark.

These clinical results were so dramatic that M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has pioneered a clinical trial offering patients CyberKnife versus surgery.  To date, CyberKnife was reserved for patients who were considered too sick for surgery, but this has changed.

First Dayton CyberKnife will have the X-sight system that allows us to continuously track the motion of the tumor within the lung.  And the RoboCouch will allow us to treat patients sitting up making patients more comfortable during their treatments.

We will continue bringing you more infomation on the CyberKnife; giving people in SouthWest Ohio more treatment options. And getting them back to their lives quicker. 

Yummy Crock Pot Chicken & Dumplings      

2 Tbsp. butter

2 (10.75 oz.) cans condensed cream of chicken soup

1 onion finely diced

2 (10 oz.) packages refrigerated biscuit dough - cut into strips

Place the chicken, butter, soup and onion in slow cooker, and fill with enough water to cover.

Cover, and cook for 5 - 6 hours on High.  About 2 hours before serving, place the biscuit strips in the slow cooker (you can also add veggies such as frozen peas & carrots at this time).  Cook until the dough is no longer raw in the center.

ENJOY!

**to make this recipe more healthy you can use reduced fat & reduced sodium cream of chicken soup and reduced fat biscuits.