A new step in painless, cut-free brain surgery is bringing international attention to Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

Part of the upgrade Riverside Health System recently made to its Leksell Gamma Knife, a noninvasive radiosurgery machine that attacks brain tumors, had to be done in the dead of night. “They have to ...

A trio of Republican bills aimed at addressing long-term radiation exposure risks faced by health care professionals by ...

While tremendous relief comes from successfully battling cancer, survivors can also experience cognitive impairments caused by the disease and its treatment. Up to 70% of survivors experience trouble ...

Proton therapy and image-guided precision have improved outcomes for primary brain tumor patients by minimizing toxicity and enhancing targeting accuracy. Multidisciplinary collaboration, involving ...

Preoperative stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) was just as safe as postoperative SRT for patients with resectable brain metastases. More patients treated with preoperative SRT completed both radiation ...

A phase 2 trial found that compared with whole brain radiation (WBRT), stereotactic radiation reduced neurologic deaths in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and 1-10 brain metastases. SCLC ...

While targeted radiation can be an effective treatment for brain tumors, subsequent potential necrosis of the treated areas can be hard to distinguish from the tumors on a standard MRI. A new study ...