La radiosurgery, an efficient technique for brain injury.
the Group IMO, pioneer in radiosurgery Spain carried out the first treatment with this technique in the Instituto Oncológico Cartuja.
Seville, February 2012. Instituto Oncológico Cartuja begins to apply radiosurgery, a treatment that destroys tumors and metastases to the brain without open surgery. This treatment consists of administering only high doses of radiation in the lesion, which does not damage healthy tissue around the tumor.
The first patient has been treated is a woman of 48 years with a benign brain tumor, a meningioma in the sagittal sinus. In this case, radiosurgery has complemented a complicated surgery and has avoided a second surgery.
Unlike other techniques, the intervention by hard radiosurgery only half an hour, is painless and does not need any type of incision or anesthesia, as it has been detailed Dr. Kita Sallabanda, neurosurgeon of the IMO group, who led this procedure with Dr. Jose Bustos, neurosurgeon the IMO group and the Coordinator of the Instituto Oncológico Cartuja, oncologist Dr. Javier Jaén.
The IMO group is the first to Spain to apply this technique for brain injuries. So far he has done 4,200 treatments with success of which 500 have been interventions of meningiomas.
Radiosurgery of future
Likewise, the IMO group has taken one further step and has been incorporated into a unit located in Madrid system radiosurgery Robotizada guided by the image in real time known as Cyberknife VSI, unique of its kind in our country and that allows to treat injuries with great precision close to critical as brainstem organs, CHIASMA, optic nerve, and the area of hearing. “it’s a conservative technique and thanks to these latest equipment is ambulatory mode, without incisions or anaesthesia, with minimal effects side and very comfortable for the paciente´´, emphasizes Dr. Sallabanda.
On the radiosurgery treatment
what?
Radiosurgery is used for the treatment of various problems brain, both benign and malignant. This technique is particularly indicated in cases such as neurinomas, brain Arteriovenous Malformations of the acoustic, meningiomas, metastases, other types of brain tumors or functional disorders (neuralgia of the trigeminal, some cases of epilepsy, etc.).
in that is?
Radiosurgery uses multiple arches of radiation centered in a defined volume estereotáxicamente. The estereotáxico procedure includes identification and situation in the three dimensions of space, structures or intracranial injury. On the volume where the beams of radiation settles a high dose irradiation in surrounding healthy tissue being minimal.
la radiosurgery, to administer a dose of radiation very concentrated in the injury, makes possible the treatment of pathologies in which treatment with conventional surgery may be very difficult.
The effect of radiation, depending on the used dose is the arrest of tumor growth (and sometimes their reduction or disappearance), occlusion of the nest of the cerebral vascular malformations or destruction of altered areas.
Charterhouse Cancer Institute
Instituto Oncológico Charterhouse, which boasts a modern facilities located in the isla de la Cartuja, was born of the Alliance between two private groups, the USP ClÃnica Sagrado Corazón and Madrid Institute of Oncology and it has become a new facility which has a linear electron Accelerator, which emits beams of electrons and photons (high-energy X rays) capable of destroying tumor cells, with the least possible damage to healthy tissues. Currently performs treatments such as: radiotherapy made 3D, radiotherapy with intensity modulated (IMRT), cranial radiosurgery, RadiocirugÃa Estereotáxica.
14 Specialists, are working in this new center of Seville, which occupies an area of 500 square meters, cancer he has benefited from an investment of four million euros.
