On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, neurosurgeons at University Hospital La Timone (Marseilles, France) used their Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™ system to deliver radiosurgery to the center’s 10,000th patient, a 40-year-old woman. The treatment comes in the 18th year of the hospital’s Gamma Knife® program, which has employed four different versions of Leksell Gamma Knife , considered the gold standard for brain radiosurgery.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a gentler alternative to traditional brain surgery for illnesses such as metastatic disease, which is cancer that has travelled to the brain from elsewhere in the body. With pinpoint accuracy, the system delivers up to thousands of low-intensity radiation beams to one or more targets in a single session. Perfexion provides even greater speed and ease of use than previous models.
"To have offered the benefits of Gamma Knife radiosurgery to so many patients after just 18 years is quite gratifying and speaks to the enduring value and effectiveness of this continually evolving technology," says La Timone neurosurgeon and Gamma Knife program director, Jean Régis, M.D.
At an industrious pace of five to ten Gamma Knife surgeries per day in recent years, Hospital La Timone is on course to make 2010 its busiest Gamma Knife year ever, with patients treated predicted to exceed 900.
Since acquiring its Perfexion system in 2006, Hospital La Timone has harnessed this system’s faster workflow and larger treatable volume to improve and expand its radiosurgery applications.
"We clearly are treating more lesions outside the cranium," Dr. Régis says. "We also now easily treat multiple brain metastases in a single session – our record was 23 metastases. Some years ago we had been treating between one and three mets in one session, but today we routinely treat patients who have up to 10 mets."
Gamma Knife surgery will play an increasingly critical role in the treatment of multiple metastases as the medical literature continues to show evidence concerning the toxicity of whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT), he adds.
Dr.Sanjay Mongia
Neurologial & GammaKnife Surgeon
Email: gamma@gammaknifeonline.in
Web : http://www.gammaknife.in/
Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a gentler alternative to traditional brain surgery for illnesses such as metastatic disease, which is cancer that has travelled to the brain from elsewhere in the body. With pinpoint accuracy, the system delivers up to thousands of low-intensity radiation beams to one or more targets in a single session. Perfexion provides even greater speed and ease of use than previous models.
"To have offered the benefits of Gamma Knife radiosurgery to so many patients after just 18 years is quite gratifying and speaks to the enduring value and effectiveness of this continually evolving technology," says La Timone neurosurgeon and Gamma Knife program director, Jean Régis, M.D.
At an industrious pace of five to ten Gamma Knife surgeries per day in recent years, Hospital La Timone is on course to make 2010 its busiest Gamma Knife year ever, with patients treated predicted to exceed 900.
Since acquiring its Perfexion system in 2006, Hospital La Timone has harnessed this system’s faster workflow and larger treatable volume to improve and expand its radiosurgery applications.
"We clearly are treating more lesions outside the cranium," Dr. Régis says. "We also now easily treat multiple brain metastases in a single session – our record was 23 metastases. Some years ago we had been treating between one and three mets in one session, but today we routinely treat patients who have up to 10 mets."
Gamma Knife surgery will play an increasingly critical role in the treatment of multiple metastases as the medical literature continues to show evidence concerning the toxicity of whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT), he adds.
Dr.Sanjay Mongia
Neurologial & GammaKnife Surgeon
Email: gamma@gammaknifeonline.in
Web : http://www.gammaknife.in/
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