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Gamma Knife

Advantages

Gamma Knife treatment offers these advantages:

  • A single, non-invasive treatment.
  • Typically an outpatient procedure with fewer complications than traditional surgery.
  • Only stereotactic radiosurgery device that is FDA approved to treat brain metastases.
  • Can treat single and multiple brain metastases from a variety of primary cancers such as lung, breast, colon, kidney, prostate, bladder and melanoma.
  • Patients return to pretreatment activities within days, requiring little or no rehabilitative services.
  • Reimbursed by most insurance payors, including Medicare.
  • Over 2,000 peer-review clinical articles support its use for:

 

 

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