TECHNOLOGICAL WONDER for cancer treatment arrives to Serbia!

Cyber knife, a device that breaks tumors throughout the body that can not be operated, could soon be found in the Clinical Center of Serbia. 

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As the Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar said, there are serious thoughts about acquiring this technological marvel. Currently, the patients in Serbia are sent to the treatment with cyber knife in Turkey.  

- With the purchase of cyber knife with new accelerators we could wrap up the story of oncology and provide our patients with a standard on pair with world standards - Loncar said to Blic.

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This device is very expensive, according to a Loncar' s words, it will require a special building where it will be located, and specially trained staff.

- It is a robotic radio surgeon system that noninvasively treats malign and benign tumors. Those are tumors of the head, brain, neck, spine, lungs, liver and prostate. It can be used on patients of all ages, there are no side effects, pains or other problems - said prof. Dr Milos Jokovic for Blic, the director of the Clinic for neurosurgery in Clinical Center of Serbia.

The advantage of this device is that tumors that are on parts of the body which are moving during the radiation can be treated, like lungs. The treatment time of cancer patients have been significantly reduced, and the side effects are significantly lower. 

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- With standard treatment the dose of radiation is given over few weeks, while with cyber knife, that dose can be placed within one to five days, depending on the tumor, and thus the side effects are significantly lower.  

Therapy can be applied with patients that already had general radio therapy or with those that have a tumor on specific place, for example, eye nerve.  

The hardest tumor patients with metastasis on the brain have been sent to cyber knife for treatment in Turkey for years, and the procedure costs around 7.000 euros, financed by the Republic fond for health insurance.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Blic)