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 ...

ThedaCare has a new, minimally invasive treatment for brain tumors and lesions using MRI-guided laser technology. It's the first health system to offer the treatment in northeastern Wisconsin. The ...

Hyderabad: AIG Hospitals launched the ZAP-X Gyroscopic Neuro-Radiosurgery Platform, the first installation of its kind in South India and only the second in the country. There are 36 of these ...

Stereotactic radiosurgery appears to be feasible, safe, and effective for patients with 15 or more brain metastases and may be a viable alternative to whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) alone in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Whole brain radiotherapy saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients who go through whole brain ...

Crews are finishing up work to install a new Linear Accelerator (LINAC) at the Jack Ady Cancer Centre in Chinook Regional Hospital. Crystall Elliott, CEO of the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation, ...

Stereotactic radiation may improve symptoms and reduce interference with daily functioning for patients with multiple brain metastases.

Previous studies have shown that, for patients with four or fewer brain tumors, stereotactic radiation—which uses focused beams of high-dose radiation to target individual tumors—improves cognitive ...

While tremendous relief comes from successfully battling cancer, survivors can also experience cognitive impairments caused by the disease and its treatment. Up to 70% of survivors experience trouble ...

Preoperative stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) was just as safe as postoperative SRT for patients with resectable brain metastases. More patients treated with preoperative SRT completed both radiation ...

Investigators sought to determine whether stereotactic radiation improves symptom severity and interference with daily functioning compared with whole-brain radiation with hippocampal avoidance.