A new step in painless, cut-free brain surgery is bringing international attention to Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
A new device that blasts targeted gamma radiation at brain tumours without needing an incision expands the ability to do ...
Part of the upgrade Riverside Health System recently made to its Leksell Gamma Knife, a noninvasive radiosurgery machine that attacks brain tumors, had to be done in the dead of night. “They have to ...
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is increasingly used to treat brain metastases. The technique uses advanced, computer-guided imaging to deliver a highly targeted and intense dose of photon radiation.
A phase 2 trial found that compared with whole brain radiation (WBRT), stereotactic radiation reduced neurologic deaths in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and 1-10 brain metastases. SCLC ...
While targeted radiation can be an effective treatment for brain tumors, subsequent potential necrosis of the treated areas can be hard to distinguish from the tumors on a standard MRI. A new study ...