According to Dr. Kita Sallabanda, neurosurgeon of the IMO group: “radiosurgery allow local control of more than 90% of brain metastases and a better recovery of the patient”.

Spain, March 2012.- thanks to radiosurgery achieve local control of brain metastases in more than 90% of patients who suffer from this type of injury, allowing us to survival and a better quality of life of patients treated ”, stated Dr. Kita Sallabanda, neurosurgeon of the IMO group and Coordinator medical course in advanced techniques in radiosurgery that has been closed, the past Wednesday 14 at an extraordinary session in the Royal Academy of medicine in Madrid which has organized the IMO Group Foundation, in collaboration with the Ruber International Hospital. Currently the IMO group has treated more than 4,000 patients with this technique and the results are very satisfactory. Also – added – this technique has benefited in recent years thanks to technological advances, such as the CyberKnife system robotic radiosurgery. This spectacular technological development has allowed us to take a giant step, because we get greater precision, greater therapeutic efficacy, even for clinical cases of more than two to three brain injuries, a better relationship of cost/benefit for patients and the health system, at the same time that minimizing or eliminate possible side effects with what we got that patients can return to their even labour, normal activities almost immediately ”. According to experts involved in this scientific event, with other techniques such as conventional surgery or radiotherapy (radiation of the entire head through the traditional system) holocraneal the results are very limited. For example, according to studies carried out in different countries, more than 85% operated with open surgery again suffer a relapse local or remote. With radiation holocraneal the figure of recurrence exceeds 50% of treated cases and with both techniques morbidity and the adverse side affects are. But in any case – stressed Dr. Sallabanda – doctors need to work in a multidisciplinary way and personalized so that the most appropriate techniques must indicate in each case. The team work among neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, physicists, specialized technicians and nurses is essential in radiosurgery. This approach, for example, allows us to achieve as well as control the level metastatic tumor, a greater survival of these patients if you get the primary tumor control ”.

Dr. Kita Sallabanda, Neurocirujano Grupo IMO.

Giant arteriovenous malformations effective treatment

Another aspect addressed in the course has been the treatment of AVMs, above all, giant so-called injuries that either by their large size or its location in areas very committed make their surgical approach unworkable. In this field – said the IMO group specialist – radiosurgery has emerged as the only effective for patients alternative because it allows us to eliminate or significantly reduce injuries, without causing virtually side effects patients achieving a better quality of life and a much better prognosis. In our group we have a significant number of treated patients and the results are very positive which is why we must move in this therapeutic area ”.