To relieve the patients who have undergone prostate cancer surgery from the pain of recovery, doctors at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed an approach which is patient-friendly in the sense that it eliminates the use of a penile urinary catheter. The novel technique which is used along with robotic prostatectomy (the surgical removal of the prostate) does away with the discomfort that is associated with the standard catheter. In this approach, urine is redirected from the bladder through a narrow tube that goes out through a small needle puncture below the gut.

Accuray Inc. and IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. will be collaborating for development of inter-operability between the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System and the MOSAIQ® oncology information system. Treatment plan and delivery information from the CyberKnife System will be fed directly into the electronic medical record of IMPAC with the use of DICOM standard interface protocols. This will facilitate clinicians who will have all the data in a single, easily-accessible and readily available to make timely and informed medical decisions.