- What is Radio Surgery?
Some malignant brain tumors that recur several times after surgery once or in areas of the brain that should not be touched at all. It may be necessary to use radiation therapy or radiosurgery for tumors that are affected.
While high doses of radiation, that is, radiotherapy, given to the whole brain for days, destroy the tumor; Of course, it also damages the healthy brain tissue that is functioning normally.
In order to prevent this, all the radiation to be given to the brain within days is intended to not harm the surrounding normal brain tissue; High-tech radiotherapy systems have been developed that allow the patient to focus only on the area where the tumor is located in just one day.
The treatment performed with these is called“radiosurgery”and the devices that apply this treatment are now >It is available in many centers in our country under names such as “gamma knife”, “cyber knife”.
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