The campus of Wilson Regional Medical Center, Johnson City, NY, is now the site of the CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery System, a form of robotic radiation surgery that is presenting a revolutionary new option in cancer treatment. Cyberknife Center of New York and its affiliated doctors will be using this amazing new technology. Here are just a few of the reasons that make it remarkable:

• There are no incisions.
• Treatment is painless.
• There is no need for anesthesia or blood transfusions.
• The risk of infection from traditional surgery is eliminated.
• Tumors anywhere in the body can be treated.
• Healthy tissues adjacent to the treated diseased cells are undamaged.
• Treatments take only 30 to 90 minutes to complete and require a total of one to five visits, often in successive days.
• Patients visit on an outpatient basis and experience little or no side effects. Immediately following a treatment, patients can go to work or out for dinner.