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Cyberknife Tech Saves Brit Man from Certain Death
Michael Kilby, who comes from Moreton in Marsh, Glouchestershire, was told by doctors that he wouldn't live beyond Christmas this year, until he agreed to give radiation surgery a chance.
The businessman's death was a surety because of the tumor, larger than a golf ball, found inside the right chamber of his heart.
However, radiation scalpel, called the Cyberknife, became Kilby's lifesaver.
The highly focused radiation, like a 'scalpel,' was used to cut away the tumour inside his beating heart. The radiation beams were controlled by a robotic with an accuracy of one millimetre arm attack the tumour.
Also pieces of gold were aligned to Kilby's heart for protection.
The operation has been called successful as the tumour has already shrunk by 40 per cent and is expected to shrink further over the next three to four weeks.
"My options were to give the Cyberknife a go or I was going to die by Christmas. I talked to my wife and the children who said they did not want any inheritance so we went for it," the Telegraph quoted Kilby as saying.
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08/30/2011
The radiation beams were controlled by a robotic with an accuracy of one millimetre arm attack the tumour.
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