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grantg2

03/25/08 10:57 AM

#745 RE: plfminthemiddle #744

plfm... some answers to the best of my knowledge...

Scottrade shows earnings at .07 so PE is about 126... but this early in the game I do not put much emphasis on PE since growth and sales are more important for the company & earning will flow from that.

CyberKnife can be used on any solid mass tumor for which there is a clinical protocol established (in the various body regions listed in company info or at the support group site). I would imagine that the smaller the tumor is when found and treated the better...

the blogger in Atlanta with the 10cm pancreatic tumor is about the largest that I know of that has been discussed at a CK site. She has consulted with the site in Marietta, GA.

The friend of a friend that I mentioned has a tumor mass in his abdomen that is recurrent from a tumor about a decade ago that was surgically removed with chemo and traditional RT follow-up. I have not heard back from his efforts thru his oncologist to get into a site nearby for CyberKnife treatment... he cannot do surgery again since his is deemed INOP by surgeons and he cannot do traditional RT (on a varian or similar gantry device) because of the radiation limits he has already been exposed to the first time around. His current tumor is the size of a small orange as he was told (my guess is somewhere between 8-11cm).

As for using CyberKnife with chemo... it appears to be completely compatible according to the blogger in Atlanta. She was to begin chemo to start shrinking her tumor... then after a couple of months she was to begin having CyberKnife treatments. Supposedly she would have chemo one week, CK the next, and resume her chemo again the following week without any delays to the alternate week chemo cycle.

Her oncologist told her that IF she had traditional RT (Varian and other gantry devices) that she would have to skip 6-8 weeks in her chemo treatments before resuming them because of the OVERLY toxic effect of chemo and the traditional RT dose to the body.

YOU might be able to find others with first hand answers to specific questions on the support group site...

http://www.cyberknifesupport.org/

I'd look into the following links there on the left side of their webpage:

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