Gamma Knife Surgery Offers New Hope

Gamma knife surgery which had been proven safeWith its sub-millimeter accuracy Gamma Knife
and effective, is offering new hope to patientsSurgery reduces the risk of damaging surrounding
suffering from nervous system diseases across thenormal tissues and minimizes the brain’s exposure
globe. With its non invasive surgical procedure,to the radiation. Gamma Knife surgery is recognized
Gamma Knife provides patients with a betterworldwide as the preferred treatment for brain
alternative in treating tumors, vascular deformation,tumors, arteriovenous malformations and brain
trigeminal neuralgia, Parkinson’s Disease,dysfunctions such as trigeminal neuralgia. It is
Alzheimer’s Disease and other conditions of thesupported by over 2,500 medically reviewed research
brain that were once require an open brain surgery.articles that are primarily published in neurosurgery
Presently Asian Medical Tourism together withjournals.
Philippine Gamma Knife Center had made GammaThis fact coupled with published reports indicated
Knife surgery available to Filipinos. Philippine Gammathat the Gamma Knife can be used as an alternative
Knife Center has state of the art facility andto adjunctive therapy in the treatment of residual or
equipments needed to perform the said surgery. Therecurrent lesions that were not removed by
Center uses computerized data from imaging tests,conventional brain tumor surgery. Gamma Knife
such as CT scans, MRIs or arteriograms to pinpointsurgery can be especially useful for those patients
problem areas in the brain. As a result, Philippinewho are not suitable for standard surgical techniques
Gamma Knife Center destroys the cancer cells usingdue to illness or advanced age. In many neurosurgical
multiple beams of gamma radiation with unparallelcases, Gamma Knife is the only feasible treatment.
precision.