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A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves around a patient when he breathes. According to BBC News, the first Cyberknife will be operational in February 2009 in London, UK. But other machines have been installed in more than 15 countries, and have permitted doctors to treat 50,000 patients in the first semester of 2008. And the Cyberknife is more efficient than conventional radiotherapy devices. The current systems require twenty or more short sessions with low-dose radiation. On the contrary, and because it's extremely precise, a Cyberknife can deliver powerful radiation in just three sessions."
"The Cyberknife is not a real knife"
Dangit, that headline got my hopes up...
The sharks with freaking laser beam union would never put up with that. With a name like Landshark17 I'd have thought you'd know that!
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A robot to fight cancer is impressive, but I hear the Japanese are working on a robot that can give you herpes.
That man is destined to be rich and famous
Is that code for masturbate? If not, it should be. :-)
P.S. I hate the Firehose Tab too.
Someone, please make this a configurable item.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
"The Cyberknife is not a real knife"
They were just quoting Crocodile Dundee's opinion.
It's an overused, died-in-the-wool, tow-the-line kind of expression, for all intensive purposes.
Here now, what's all this then? Somebody has a knife? In the UK? No worries, a constable will be around shortly to confiscate it!