Welcome to Apollo Health Service
Offering a Complete Range of Surgical and Diagnostics Procedures
Combined with an Exciting Vacation
As you already know, the Health Care system here in the United States is in critical
condition and is broken on a conceptual level. Most everyone agrees, America's
health-care system is a mess.
BREAKING CANCER NEWS
Benefits to Patients
- A new treatment option: This extraordinary sophisticated treatment can be used as an alternative to open surgery. Occasionally CyberKnife® treatment can even convert a technically inoperable tumor to operable.
- Pain free: Treatment does not cause pain and therefore does not require anesthesia.
- Recovery Time: Vast majority of CyberKnife treatments are out patient procedures allowing patients to continue their activities.
- Comparative comfort: Many of the available high precision radiation techniques require application of some kind of frame around patient’s body, CyberKnife can spare that particular inconvenience for the patient. In many of the cases, it is a frameless procedure.
The CyberKnife system has significant benefits. Many of the complications associated with other conventional cancer therapies are minimized or eliminated by the CyberKnife system. In addition, it is possible to treat multiple tumors at different locations in the body during a single treatment session. Patient normally experiences dramatic pain relief after the CyberKnife treatment".
All patients are reviewed by the Apollo CyberKnife® Advisory Board prior to a decision on treatment
Patient Profile: Mr. C.V.G
Mr. C.V.G is a senior gentleman aged 86 years with a sharp mind with shining eyes. He was diagnosed with cancer of the prostate in 1999. He underwent TURP plus Bilateral Orchidectomy and was on hormonal management. A second cancer was detected three years later. This time a much more aggressive tumour in the nasal area. Conventional radiotherapy was able to control the disease for a year. But the nasal tumour kept on coming back. Laser surgery could remove only part of the tumour so it kept on re-growing. Chemotherapy was not considered for him being above 80 at that time. By the end of 2008 patient was having a completely blocked nose with epistaxis and permanent discharge. He was unable to breath properly anymore. His eyes were not shining anymore. Another course of radiotherapy to this area with eyes in close vicinity did not come to the picture, and hence Cyberknife was the only treatment option. We completed the procedure April 2009. Few weeks later, Mr. CVG returned smiling and had an opened up nasal cavity and with no complaints. Even the radiation oncologists were surprised by the fact that this radiation has targeted the inside tumour almost exclusively. Though it was a second irradiation there was hardly any radio-reaction on the skin. He thinks of visiting his son in the US again …
Patient Profile: Mr. JT
A young man aged 17 years was diagnosed with Hypothalamic Hamartoma This young man had a long history of Gelastic seizures. The cause for this was a large space-occupying lesion in the suprasellar region. He underwent surgery but the tumour could not be removed as it appeared very vascular and per-operatively there was a lot of bleeding. The only option for him was stereotactic radiosurgery. The CyberKnife treatment was done for him over 5 sittings in one week. He did not experience any side effects either during or after the treatment. In fact, he used to travel all the way from Kovalam daily for this treatment. It has been over 2 months following therapy, he is doing fine and his symptoms have reduced. Since this tumour responds slowly to radiation, a post treatment scan has been scheduled for one month from now.
The CyberKnife at Apollo is now set to offer treatment access to millions of patients diagnosed with cancer every year. The advanced technology behind CyberKnife uses real time image guidance technology and computer-controlled robotics to deliver an extremely precise dose of radiation to targets, avoiding the surrounding healthy tissue and adjusting for patient and tumor movement during treatment. The CyberKnife can treat by organ and by tumor targets located anywhere in the body and is a revolution in the treatment of cancerous and non-cancerous tumors in the body, including the prostate, lung, brain, spine, liver, pancreas and kidney.
For more information on how the CyberKnife system can help you or a loved one, contact us...