Gamma Knife surgery is computer-guided radiation therapy. Despite its name, it does not require an incision. There are no knives involved. Gamma Knife is a brand name. The procedure uses highly ...

[Alex Small/The Daily Pennsylvanian] Sheila McFarland, the head nurse of the Gamma Knife Center at Pennsylvania Hospital at 800 Spruce St., talks about the cutting-edge cancer-fighting technology.

Jack Bartell, who lives in The Dalles, had suffered from severe pain on one side of his face since 1985. Called trigeminal neuralgia, this life-altering condition is thought to be caused by blood ...

Q. My neurosurgeon has recommended gamma-knife surgery for a noncancerous meningioma. I am told that radiation can cause fatigue, and I want to boost my immune system beforehand. What do you recommend ...

DALLAS, Sept. 7, 2006 -- A week after graduating from high school, Katherine Coit had brain surgery to remove an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that were bleeding in her brain. The potentially ...

A hospital trust is marking 40 years since it became the first in the UK to use gamma knife surgery to treat patients with brain tumours. The National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery, at the ...

“Waiting to be wheeled down for open brain surgery is absolutely terrifying,” she says. “All you think is: ‘I am going to die, I am going to die’." Seven months later Ellen had gamma knife surgery, a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond hospital celebrated a big milestone friday, after successfully conducting its 5,000 Gamma Knife procedure. The Gamma Knife is used in the sophisticated treatment of ...