Cancer that spreads to the brain from another part of the body such as lung or breast is called a metastatic brain tumor. As metastatic brain tumors grow, they can cause symptoms such as headaches, ...

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) should replace whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) as the new standard of care for patients with four or more brain metastases, say researchers who report results from a ...

Cancer patients who receive stereotactic radiosurgery and whole brain radiation therapy for the treatment of metastatic brain tumors have more than twice the risk of developing learning and memory ...

Predicting invasive disease at excision of ductal carcinoma in situ in core biopsies: A predictive model. Background: Salvage SRS is often considered in breast cancer patients (pts) previously treated ...

A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides guidance on the use of radiation therapy to treat patients with brain metastases. Evidence-based ...

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) sends narrow beams of radiation into your cancer. The beams can focus on a tumor of any size or shape. It causes little damage to nearby healthy cells. If you have only ...

Developed specifically for verification of stereotactic treatment plans, IBA Dosimetry’s latest innovation in patient quality assurance (QA) combines film-class measurement resolution with the ...

“Patient QA with SRS MapCHECK has become a routine part of our SRS/SBRT workflow,” says Brett Miller, chief physicist (radiation oncology) at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. (Courtesy: ...

The UAB Department of Radiation Oncology has partnered with Varian to develop a three-day conference that discusses and demonstrates stereotactic radiation (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation (SBRT) ...