Meridian Viewray is toast. Looking for alternative machines.

[Cancer2x]

Just was unenrolled in a Phase I clinical trial using the Meridian Viewray machine at Dana Farber. Meridian went belly-up in the summer, and the hospital (Brigham and Women’s in Boston) will cease using that machine in October 25th. I was supposed to start a clinical trial Nov 1st, now cancelled.

Looking for substitutes. Thinking that Cyberknife machines can also deliver IMAGE-guided SBRT, maybe. Can they use MRI, instead of CT, which has a worse record of SE’s, per the MIRAGE trial?

Also - one of my cancerous lymph nodes is REALLY close to my bladder. Has SPACE-OAR Gel ever been used to help separate structures internally other than the rectum?

Questions, questions.

[dudubaya]

That alternative would be Elektra Unity, you may get more info on it from Seasid who had his prostate irradiated with that machine

[j-o-h-n]

French?

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Wednesday 10/11/2023 5:03 PM DST