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Gamma Knife Surgery: No Scalpel Needed
Patients with certain types of brain tumors and disorders no longer need to "go under the knife" or endure physically draining radiation therapy to find relief. With Gamma Knife technology, doctors are able to deliver over 200 beams of radiation with scalpel-like precision directly to tumors and lesions.
Although many people have never heard of Gamma Knife, the procedure has been around for a long time. The Food and Drug Administration approved it nearly 30 years ago, and University of Maryland doctors have been administering Gamma Knife treatments for over a decade. In fact, more than 2,500 patients have come to the University of Maryland Medical Center for Gamma Knife surgery.
Unlike traditional surgery, Gamma Knife procedures don't actually involve the use of a "knife" or scalpel. In fact, no incisions are made at all. The skull never has to be opened up.
Conditions Treated with Gamma Knife
The following conditions are among those that can be treated with a Gamma Knife.
•Benign tumors -- including meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, pituitary adenomas, schwannomas, craniopharyngiomas, pineal tumors
•Malignant tumors -- including metastatic tumors, chordomas, medulloblastomas, astrocytomas, ependymomas, anaplastic astrocytomas
•Arteriovenous malformations (AVM)
•Trigeminal neuralgia
•Parkinson's disease
Gamma Knife also differs from conventional radiation therapy. Because patients are injected with such low doses of radiation, they don't experience the side effects associated with traditional radiation therapy. In fact, several "shots" of therapy can be given during the same session, and treatment sessions can be repeated every few weeks if necessary.
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End. Studies show strong treatment success rates; for example, local control (successful treatment of a specific site) of tumors in any brain location exceeds an average of 85%. And, despite the name, there is no blade or knife its called Gamma Knife because radiosurgery (one-session treatment) has such a dramatic and precise effect in the target zone that the changes are considered surgical. So theres no incision or blood, and minimal risk of complications.
Through the use of three-dimensional, computer-aided planning and the high degree of immobilization of the patient, the treatment can minimize the amount of radiation to surrounding healthy brain tissue. There are approximately 200 sources of cobalt-60 loaded within the treatment unit. Thousands of radiation beams can be generated from these sources with a level of accuracy of more than 0.5mm, about the thickness of a strand of hair. Individually, each radiation beam is too weak to damage the normal tissues it crosses on the way to the target. But when focused precisely on that target, the beams intersect and the combined radiation is sufficient to treat the targeted area.
Because Gamma Knife radiosurgery is so accurate, the full dose of radiation can be delivered during a single session, compared with multiple visits for linear accelerator (linac) treatments, which use lower doses delivered in fractions (fractionated treatment).
The reduction of excess radiation is important to everyone, but particularly to cancer patients who are receiving other radiotherapy treatments. For these patients, treatment of a metastatic brain tumor a cancer that has spread from the original site might have to be delayed by up to six weeks if certain less precise treatments are used.
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@Nueroactive I am not referring to the choice patients have of going into a physical structure I am referring to the wireless control systems that make people as puppets. Not the physically visible machines that you see. Rather a wireless "Total Recall" that is applied electronically to unsuspecting masses.
Nueroactive 2 weeks ago
With technology decisions upon how it shall be used. Imagine a world without defect and properly managed to the point of giving each being a personality, a lot in life and surgeries without them knowing they are getting them. It would appear a competitive advantage in a nation whose people appear better, more talented more intelligent but alas not real, just puppets. Gepetto of the high tech and I am not Pinoccio. We'll hardwire your brain to see God according to the program for your model type.
Nueroactive 2 weeks ago