Experts at Seattle CyberKnife Center at Swedish Medical Center are always in demand to make presentations at professional meetings around the world, to speak to groups and organizations, and to answer reporters' questions about the most current advances in CyberKnife treatments.
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June 2010:
Dr. Robert Meier was invited to give a presentatino titled "Robotic Radiosurgery for Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer: Early Toxicity Outcomes from a Multi-institutional Trial" at the American Urologic Association meeting.
 View Dr.Meier's presentation
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November 2009:
The Seattle CyberKnife Center is leading the way in using CyberKnife to treat breast cancer. This topic is featured in the November issue of Physicians Practice, a professional journal distributed to more than 12,000 physicians in Washington.
Read about this new approach to treat breast cancer, a case report and a patient's story
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November 2009:
Dr. Robert Douglas was the guest speaker at Gilda's Club Seattle. He speaks on "CyberKnife - New Cancer Fighting Technology."
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November 2009:
Dr. Robert Meier was invited to present a poster titled "MRI-Planned Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer: Feasibility and Early Results" at the 51st annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology.
View Dr.Meier's presentation
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April 2009:
Dr. Robert Meier was invited to speak at the 91st annual meeting of the American Radium Society. His presentation was titled "Stereotactic body radiotherapy for organ-confined prostate cancer: feasibility and early results".
View Dr.Meier's presentation
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February 2009:
Dr. Sandra Vermeulen was a guest speaker at the 2009 CyberKnife Society Users Meeting. During the presentation, titled "A CyberKnife Fiducial Tracking Study for Partial Breast Irradiation" Dr. Vermeulen discussed a study she is conducting with Dr. Cristian Cotrutz, Dr. David Beatty and Dr. Astrid Morris. The study will determine whether it is possible to use spherical gold fiducials for Synchrony Tracking in breast cancer patients.
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February 2009:
Kathy Goertzen, KOMO TV news anchor, tells her TV audience about being treated for a noncancerous brain tumor. Kathy returned to work Feb. 16 after brain surgery and CyberKnife treatment.
 Watch Kathy tell her story
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January 2009:
Swedish Medical Center uses Physicians Practice to educate physicians throughout Washington about the advantages of CyberKnife.
Read the article on page A4 of the medical center's pages in Physicians Practice
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February 2008:
Physicians, surgeons, nurses and technologists at Swedish Neuroscience Institute donated their time and expertise to help provide 18-year-old Peruvian teen Cristian Cruz Choccata access to a high-tech, minimally invasive brain surgery and CyberKnife treatment that dramatically improved his vision, ultimately saved his life.
Read the news release
Read the transcript and watch a video of the story
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December 2007:
Dr. Robert Meier began a phase II clinical research study on the use of CyberKnife to treat prostate cancer. The clinical trial title is "Prospective Evaluation of CyberKnife Radiosurgery of Low and Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer: Homogeneous Dose Distribution"
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September 2007:
Dr. Sandra Vermeulen, co-director of the Seattle CyberKnife Center speaks to physicians attending the Swedish Cancer Institute's Annual Oncology Symposium. Her topic is the use of CyberKnife following a lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer.
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October 2006:
When Kippen Westphal learned a benign brain tumor - one she thought had been successfully removed nearly a decade earlier - had grown back, she looked for a different answer. She turned to Dr. Sandra Vermeulen and the painless, surgery-free CyberKnife treatment at the Seattle CyberKnife Center at Swedish Medical Center.
Listen to Kippen Westphal tell her story
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Fall 2006:
Larry Lautenslager tells HealthWatch that he and his family have renewed hope - and it's all thanks to CyberKnife.
Read the story on page 8 of HealthWatch
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June 2006:
It was big news in Seattle when Swedish Medical Center added CyberKnife to its radiation therapy options. It was the first CyberKnife in the Pacific Northwest.
Read the news release
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May 2006:
Dr. Robert Meier used CyberKnife to treat LaDon Granstaff's prostate
cancer. Seattle P-I business reporter Brand Wong interviewed Dr. Meier and Mr. Granstaff for an article about this state-of-the-art radiation therapy that offers accuracy, comfort and convenience.
Read the Seattle P-I story
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