About Gamma Knife Treatment

Providing Hope to Patients and Their Families

Gamma knife technology is consistently regarded as the best noninvasive treatment for brain disorders. Benefits include:

• Targeted treatment of previously inaccessible areas
• High cure rate
• Delivery of maximum dose to target area
• Low risk of damage to nearby healthy tissue
• Low morbidity
• Painless treatment
• Return home the same day
• High patient satisfaction and quality of life

Gamma Knife Outcomes

• Tumors show an effective response in 85 to 98 percent of cases.
• In more than 80 percent of patients treated for AVMs, the AVMs disappear completely within two years.

More about Gamma Knife at the Brown University Health Cancer Institute