The Benefits: Safe, Proven
and Cost-Saving
Benefits for the Patients
Gamma Knife Surgery is a truly non-invasive procedure backed by over three decades of clinical experience and documented results. It provides patients with dramatically improved quality of life by avoiding post-operative complications such as hemorrhage and infection associated with conventional surgery.
Patients can be treated and discharged the same day or within 24 hours after treatment, thus eliminating a lengthy hospital stay. Return to work and pre-surgical lifestyle can occur the very next day.
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Benefits for Society
Gamma Knife Surgery is 30% - 70% less costly than conventional surgery1. It minimizes patient convalescence and recovery time; individuals normally return to pre-treatment lifestyles within 24 hours, as compared to two weeks or more with conventional surgery.
In addition Gamma Knife Surgery fulfills an unmet need in the patient population. In some cases it is the only treatment alternative, and provides a clinical service with limited availability worldwide. For example, less than 20% of patients in the U.S. who are suitable candidates for Gamma Knife Surgery actually are receiving the treatment2.
- Lunsford LD, Flickinger G, Maitz A.
Stereotactic radiosurgery of the brain using the first United States 201 cobalt-60 source gamma knife. Neurosurgery 25(2): 151, 1989.
- Leksell Gamma Knife Society data and current epidemiological information
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