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Date:9/2/2009

nclick="linkClick( this.href );" target="_blank" title="Wellmont Health System">Wellmont Health System and its communications partner during this "Twittercast," WJHL 11 Connects, will send out minute-by-minute "tweets" as the CyberKnife team at Bristol Regional treats Anderson's cancer with powerful, incredibly accurate bursts of radiation.
The Twittercast will begin Friday at 10 a.m. as Anderson receives her final treatment. Twitter is a Web site and service that lets users send short text messages up to 140 characters in length to a group of people.

Mobile phone and computer users will be able to track the procedure by following either Wellmont Health System or news anchor Sara Diamond, who will "tweet" for 11 Connects, on Twitter. To follow the procedure, go to twitter.com, search for @wellmonthealth and @sdiamondwjhl, and click "follow." Twitter users may also utilize the hashtag #CyberKnife to follow the procedure.

Wellmont will be the first health system in the United States to "tweet" a CyberKnife procedure in real time.

The cancerous spot on the lower lobe of Anderson's left lung, found by general surgeon : Dr. T.C. Greene, is only about the size of a quarter.

"If Dr. Greene hadn't found that tumor," Anderson said, "I wouldn't even be having this conversation about CyberKnife. The cancer could have ended up spreading through my entire body."

Because CyberKnife delivers high doses of radiation - and does it with sub-millimeter accuracy through the use of robotics - the non-invasive, painless procedure is an ideal treatment in Anderson's case, said '/>"/>

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