REMINDER: OR-Live.com Presents: Live Internet Broadcast of CyberKnife Spine Radiosurgery to Be Hosted at Atlantic Health's Overlook Hospital
Market Wire, October, 2005
Neurosurgeon, Brian Beyerl, MD, and radiation oncologist, Louis Schwartz, MD, at Atlantic Health System's Overlook Hospital will treat a tumor on the spine using the revolutionary CyberKnife® Radiosurgery System, live on www.OR-Live.com on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 1:00 pm ET (17:00 UTC).
The broadcast will feature a new and unique treatment to a tumor on the lower spine using the CyberKnife -- the most advanced radiosurgery device used by physicians today. The CyberKnife, known for its sophisticated technology, exceptional accuracy and non-invasive characteristics, will shrink the tumor on the spine without using anesthesia and without causing any pain to the patient. The CyberKnife is the latest weapon in the medical arsenal to fight cancer and benign tumors and enables patients to have successful "surgery" without scalpels or blood.
On October 20th, Drs. Beyerl and Schwartz will treat a 46-year-old patient whose breast cancer has metastasized to the thoracic spine. Since the CyberKnife arrived at Overlook more than one year ago, 150 patients have been treated for tumors in the brain, spine, lung, pancreas, pituitary, and adrenal gland. The CyberKnife can also treat tumors in the liver and prostate. Other conditions successfully treated by the CyberKnife are arterial venous malformations (groups of abnormal vessels in the brain) and trigeminal neuralgia (intense facial nerve pain). Most of these individuals had been told their condition was inoperable until the CyberKnife technology became available to them.
The CyberKnife surgery is gaining popularity -- though only a handful of radiation oncologists and surgeons in the country currently practice it. Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ was the first medical center in the northeast with the CyberKnife technology.
"We see this opportunity to show radiosurgery online as an exciting teaching tool for our medical staff, and a compelling way for patients and their families to learn more about their own health care and allay any fears about a potential medical procedure," said Norman Luka, MD, medical director, clinical affairs, Overlook Hospital.
The average CyberKnife treatment takes about an hour and is completed in one session.
Visit http://www.or-live.com/overlook/1286 now to learn more and view a program preview. VNR: http://www.or-live.com/rams/ahs-1286-mkw-q.ram
Video-Link Available: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=210282
Contact: Alex Fraser Director of Marketing - slp3D, Inc 860-953-2900 x 214 Janina Hecht Manager Public Affairs - Overlook Hospital 908-522-2142
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