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Venezuela's 1st CK will be operating soon at Pérez Carreño Hospitalhttp://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n164105.html ** translated from Spanish ** Pérez Carreño Hospital will begin operating with the Cyberknife in a month Aporrea News Agency By: Correo del Orinoco 25/08/2010 In about a month, will complete the construction of a bunker at the Hospital Dr. Miguel Perez Carreño in which immediately put into operation a sophisticated imaging system, can effectively eradicate tumors and lesions of any organ. The medical center director, Rosalinda Prieto, they said called Cyberknife (cyber knife, in English) is considered one of the ultimate weapons for the treatment of cancer. Prieto said the CyberKnife cyber knife "or also, as they say, is able to perform radiosurgery, both lesions and cranial area of the spine and other body sites suffering from tumor diseases. "With this equipment it is possible to make high-precision procedures, through the delineation of the lesion prior to a best estimate of area and volume of the same", he said. He said that one of the advantages of the CyberKnife, unlike other technologies that are used in private clinics, is it possible to serve larger lesions, the skull and a little more diffuse. NEWS The cyber knife represents a novel technology that aims at the future than probable will be the treatment of tumors in the world, said Rosalinda Prieto. Pérez Carreño Hospital will become the first health center in Venezuela and throughout South America in having a device like this so late. In this medical center operated every year between 1,000 and 1,100 patients with tumor lesions of less complexity. Now, with the commissioning of the CyberKnife, in the same period, additionally, can be made between 200 and 300 mass lesions complicated procedures. With regard to personnel who will be responsible for carrying out such procedures, Prieto said that since last November have been training. They have received induction into the U.S. and Mexico and is listed only come to the country's bunker an American instructor with them for the first interventions. Then the doctors trained transmit the knowledge acquired to their colleagues. |
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