Stop Tumor Growth With This New Technique

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* Image of CyberKnife Equipment, from CyberKnife Center, Miami (http://www.cyberknifemiami.com/)
SBRT Is Non-Invasive, Quick & Effective
The cells in our body are, by nature, very disciplined. Most of the time. That is why we can continue to lead our lives without much worry. It is like our human society. Most of us are law-abiding. We obey the rules, and that is why negotiating our way through the society becomes predictable and easy. When we break the rules, things go out of control. This is precisely what happens with the cells in our body. Sometimes they simply go berserk and revolt. At other times they become so over-enthusiastic in fending off some alien attacker that is threatening the body, that they overstep their boundary. And when their revolt results in more and more of their progeny getting produced, we have what we call "tumors", also known as neoplasms in medical lingo.

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* Image of tumor on face, Salt Lake Community College, SLCC.edu.
These formations can be felt as tiny lumps when they are on the skin, and they can also form deep inside the body in the most unreachable of places. Like a good devil and a bad devil, the tumors can be benign as well as malignant. But then, a devil is a devil, whether good or bad, and curing the tumor is therefore usually advisable. Some therapies claim to remove the tumors naturally. Usually however, medical practitioners go in for surgery to lop off the tumor with their knife. This requires invasive techniques, the patient's body has to be cut in the appropriate place, so that the gloved hands can reach inside, locate the tumor, and apply the knife. Sewing back the patient, followed by recovery can put the patient out of action for the next four days to four weeks.


A new technique is rising rapidly on the horizon that is non-invasive, meaning it does not require people to be cut up. Patients can simply walk in, register as outpatient, undergo the treatment, and walk out the same day in some cases, and perhaps even report to work the next day. There is no hospitalization, no anesthesia, and no rehabilitation. This is the miracle of "Radiosurgery", also known medically as Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy, SBRT for short. The treatment deploys equipment that first locates the position of the tumor in the patient's supine body to the last micrometer. A specially-designed gun then shoots very high-energy radiation on the tumor in mathematically-measured dosage. The radiation reads out the riot act to the rampaging cells. This has the desired effect of cooling their libido, so that production of further progeny stops, and the tumor's growth is halted.


The body of papers reporting the success experienced with SBRT has been steadily growing. The best advantage of this technique is its ability to access the most-difficult-to-reach tumors and halt their growth. In case you have tumorous growth which you have been loathe taking care of because of the tedium of surgery and the boring post-surgery convalescence involved, the SBRT might be a good option to explore.

[Tumor cells are cells that forget their purpose in life. Somewhere along the way, they lose track of their mission. We too are at times a culprit of losing track of our mission. We fritter away the precious moments in our life doing irrelevant and inconsequential things. Reflect on how to live a life that matters, here: "Choose To Live A Life That Matters".]