In the middle of the brightly lit room, an imposing rounded white robot awaits its next patient.
Called CyberKnife, this machine, which vaguely recalls the automatons of car assembly lines, constitutes the ultimate in radiotherapy.
Two technicians work in a small adjoining room, protected from powerful X-rays by a 25 cm thick armored steel door.
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Capable of irradiating a target with millimeter precision, this type of machine (the cost of which is between 4 and 6 million euros) is not so common in France: there are fifteen at most.
The radiotherapy center of the Hartmann Institute, located at the Franco
-British Hospital in Levallois-Perret, is the only one to have two machines of this type.
Preparing patients for sessions
The system is formidable in terms of precision, but the machine
“can be impressive for the patient
,” explains Dr. Ilan Darmon, radiation oncologist at the Institute.
It can generate stress and breathing ...
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