Information about Cyber Knife

I've received a few emails asking for more information about the CyberKnife Procedure so I wanted to post a few links for people to check out. I found these helpful.

• Cyber Knife Society
• Animal Speciality Center in Yonkers NY
• A Brochure on CyberKnife (this is intended for humans but it's more or less the same for animals)
• The CyberKnife Website
• Dogster Blog from other dogs who have been through Cyberknife or are contemplating it

** There are patient forums out there for humans who have undergone CK, which is interesting because they can put into words what your pet can't. (CK is not just for dogs, there was a cat in there when we were there and I also had heard about a goat who underwent it too!).

The main difference between the animals and the humans is that the animals need to be sedated during their procedures.

We were up in NY for 5 days. Monday was the planning day and they mapped Max's brain using CT and MRI scans and planted gold seeds (inert metal) to help the cyberknife robot triangulate and hit it's target exactly. Then we had Tuesday off, Wed, Thurs, and Fri max had CK treatments and then he was done!