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Gamma Knife treatment offers these advantages:

A single, minimally 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:
» Malignant and benign brain tumors
» Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
» Trigeminal neuralgia



 

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