What Are The Advantages Of Gamma Knife Surgery?
• Gamma Knife surgery is different from conventional radiation therapy of the brain because it is only directed to the target and spares unnecessary treatment of adjacent, normal brain. • It differs because only a one day treatment is required rather than many treatments over several weeks and can be repeated if needed. • It can be used in conjunction with conventional surgery as a boost and can be used in previously inoperable cases. • Gamma Knife surgery can replace brain surgery in some patients with brain tumors and vascular malformations . . . ask your doctor about these options. • An individual who would be at high risk for complications by conventional surgery may be a candidate for Gamma Knife surgery. • It can be used when prior surgery or radiation therapy has failed to control the disease process. • It can be used in conjunction with conventional surgery as a boost and can be used in cases previously considered inoperable. • Cost effective. • Bloodless, virtually painless, n
