Eli5: Why cyberknife treatment is less popular than surgery for treatment of cancers yet it carries less risks.

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Eli5: Why cyberknife treatment is less popular than surgery for treatment of cancers yet it carries less risks.

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“CyberKnife” is a marketing term. What it really means is a robot blasting your crotch with radiation.

People are afraid of both robots and radiation, especially since radiation can have nasty effects years after the exposure. Moreover, if a firm that bothered to come up with a catchy-but-misleading name for its device, it might be hiding something.

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