Of the 1.8 million new cancer diagnoses made in the US each year, 30% of these patients will experience metastatic disease to the brain during the course of their fight to overcome their primary cancer. Over 300,00 patients will experience the spread of their primary cancer to the brain.
Fortunately, there have been new advances in both systemic control of the primary cancer and exciting new technologies in both brain imaging and precision radiation. These techniques are designed to preserve the normal brain while destroying cancerous deposits, and they have markedly prolonged high- quality survival in most patients, when metastasis is found early and treated aggressively.
“RADIOSURGERY” is a term coined by Lars Leksell, A Swedish Neurosurgeon who was Professor and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery…
Modern healthcare has evolved into a disease-based effort involving multiple physicians dedicated to treating a common disease from different perspectives. Together, these physicians deliver the full ...
The ability of all radiation to effectively control the growth of cancer anywhere in the body is based on the tolerance of the normal tissue…