Most patients with vertebral metastases receive radiotherapy for pain relief. Additionally, radiotherapy can prevent pathological fractures and malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC). External-beam ...

Brain metastases are the most common intracranial malignancy. Incidence of brain metastases has risen as systemic therapies have improved and patients with metastatic disease live longer. Whole-brain ...

Radiosurgery is a radiation therapy procedure that uses a special system to precisely deliver a large radiation dose to a tumor over one to five treatment sessions. The goal of this non-invasive ...

Brain metastases are among the most life-threatening complications of cancer, arising in 20–40% of patients. Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) is the standard treatment for patients with newly diagnosed ...

A 31-year-old Somalia patient with a large and complex brain AVM was successfully treated at Medicover Cancer Institute, ...

ZAP Surgical Systems, Inc., a global leader in non-invasive robotic brain surgery, today announced that Institut Gustave ...

Sigulda hosts the first and only robotic radiosurgery "CyberKnife" system in the Baltics, which is a modern, high-precision ...

The one-year Radiosurgery Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham offers comprehensive subspecialty training in stereotactic radiosurgery. The program provides fellows exposure to a ...

While targeted radiation can be an effective treatment for brain tumors, subsequent potential necrosis of the treated areas can be hard to distinguish from the tumors on a standard MRI.

Single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery--an effective treatment for patients with brain tumors and brain metastases--is increasingly used to treat patients with spinal metastases. This prospective, ...