Adventist Health Glendale

The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is a noninvasive alternative to surgery for the treatment of both cancerous and noncancerous tumors anywhere in the body, including the head, spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas. The treatment — which delivers beams of high-dose radiation to tumors with extreme accuracy — offers new hope to patients worldwide.

The CyberKnife treatment involves no cutting. In fact, the CyberKnife System is the world's first and only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors throughout the body noninvasively. It provides a pain-free, nonsurgical option for patients who have inoperable or surgically complex tumors or who may be looking for an alternative to surgery.

Benefits of CyberKnife

Adventist Health Glendale, in partnership with Pasadena CyberKnife, can offer Southern California residents this advanced form of treatment.

Patient benefits include:

No incision
No pain
No anesthesia
No hospitalization
Little or no recovery time
Immediate return to daily activities

Conditions treated by CyberKnife

Below is a list of some, but not all, tumors and lesions that can be treated with the CyberKnife System:

Acoustic neuroma
Anaplastic astrocytoma
Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
Craniopharyngioma
Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET)
Ependymoma
Epidural hematoma
Gangliocytoma
Germinoma
Glioblastoma multiforme
Glioma
Glomus jugulare tumor
Hemangioblastoma
Meningioma
Neurocytoma
Neurofibroma
Neurofibromatosis
Oligodendroglioma
Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET)
Pituitary adenoma
Schwannoma
Trigeminal neuralgia
Vestibular schwannoma
Osteosarcoma
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Non-small cell lung cancer
Small-cell lung cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Prostate cancer
Renal cell carcinoma
Colon cancer
Ovarian cancer
Uterine cancer
Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)

To learn more about the CyberKnife System, call (818) 409-8198 or Pasadena CyberKnife at (626) 768-1021.