Radiosurgery Branches Out

The convergence of advancing technology and the push for more effective, noninvasive cancer treatments is helping to build the perfect storm of innovation for the field of stereotactic radiosurgery. SRS allows high doses of precisely focused ablative energy to be delivered to targeted tissues with a minimum of damage to surrounding areas. It has been used for years to treat tumors in the head and neck, where patient movement can be effectively restrained with frames to protect healthy tissue. However, technological advances are now making the procedure more viable for tumors in other parts of the body, and that opens the door to treating cancers in the lung, prostate, breast, and beyond.