A robot radiotherapy machine to treat cancer, called the Cyberknife, will be introduced in Britain in February next year.
Since the machine moves with a patient's breathing, it can target tumours with greater accuracy, and the likelihood of damage to healthy tissue will be less.
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It is already being used in over a dozen countries worldwide, including France that has three under clinical trial.
The cyberknife uses a robotic arm to deliver multiple beams of high dose radiation from a wide variety of angles.
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The machine's makers say that this accuracy helps treat even such tumours as are in dangerous or difficult positions, like near the spinal cord.
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The machines have shown promising results so far.
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Fifteen countries including the USA, Germany, Italy and Japan have the Cyberknife. It is also installed in hospitals in Vietnam, Turkey and Greece.
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