What's the Cyberknife? And Why is it Marketed Like a Cancer Elixir?
There are a lot of great treatments out there for prostate cancer, and also a lot of advertising. We don't have a dog in the fight. What we do care about is helping you make better decisions. Some of the best prostate cancer doctors in the country say the cyberknife is not necessarily better than other treatments. But you would never know it looking at advertisements. The cyberknife is marketed like it's some sort of cancer elixir.
"There's a tremendous profit to be made," says Dr. Patrick Swift, a radiation oncologist at Stanford Medicine. "Everyone takes their technology and tries to model it as being the best that's out there," but – he says – there's no proven difference in the efficacy.