BENEFITS
Gamma Knife® Perfexion™ treatment offers these benefits:
- Only stereotactic radiosurgical device dedicated to treatment of the brain
- A single(one day) non-invasive, painless treatment
- No incisions or hair shaved
- No general anesthesia required
- Typically an outpatient procedure
- Patients usually go home the same day
- Patients return to pretreatment activities within days, requiring little or no rehabilitative services
- Can be used as a primary or supplemental treatment method
- Provides less chemotherapy interruption than standard radiation therapy
- FDA approved to treat brain metastases
- Reimbursed by most insurance payers, including Medicare
- Fewer complications and risks than traditional open surgery
- In use for over 40 years and boasts more than 2,500 peer-review clinical articles supporting its use
Additional benefits of the Gamma Knife Perfexion System:
- Fully-automated so treatment process is quick and painless
- Can treat single and multiple brain metastases from a variety of primary cancers with ease
- New radiation shielding levels that are up to a 100 times better than alternative technologies
- Provides unlimited reach to areas of the brain, and with future fixation devices, reach into the cervical spine area
- Added features to increase patient comfort while still providing one of the most accurate stereotactic radiosurgical procedures for the brain
