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Gamma Knife is a scientific techniques used for treating the brain tumors, trigeminal neuralgia etc. Gamma Knife is used to treat brain abnormalities not any other part of body, which were previously considered as untreatable. Brief About the evolution of Gamma Knife radio Surgery: In the past time for treating the cancer diseases radiation therapy was used but this process was very lengthy and out of budget for common crowd. These techniques make uses of linear accelerator which produces the high beam of x-rays beams and focuses on affected tissues and destroy those particular tissues. Some the x-ray get scattered from affected part and also affects the normal tissues which may results serious side effects for which people need different treatment. There are prevention measures adopted to ignore these hazards, the treatment is given once in a month in very small dose of radiations. Later on the new technique evolved radio therapy or radio surgery which comes with some great advantages like better control over the radiations, easily target the affected area, cost effective less time, less time consuming. After the implication of radio wave over the affected area, great amounts of radiation were bombard from different-different directions so that other normal tissues gets the meager effect of these rays. Radio allows high amount of radiation to be bombard in one to five sessions instead of the several weeks that was used with traditional radiation treatment. As all these techniques were not giving 100% satisfactory results, also many patient were affected with this techniques causes some external diseases or side effects due to complication of treating the affected area. Later on with some amendments the Gamma Knife radio surgery system is comes into picture and also it is being appreciated by both the doctors and patient. The results produces by this system are more satisfactory and also it minimizes the chances of misshaping in case tumors and cancers. Treatment given Gamma Knife is very short it requires 2-3 hours for treating the affected area of tumors and also other tissues does not get affected by the gamma rays. But as we know there are some limitations with every technology same is applicable for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, the main disadvantage of this surgery is that it is only used for treating the brain related diseases not the other outside the cranial area. The producer of Gamma Knife of treatment involves the placement of helmet like halo which screwed into the skull, which results into the better penetration of gamma rays for treating the affected area. This procedure took place in near about 5-6 hours general and rest depends on complexity of case. Gamma Knife technology is a young and fast growing field of treating the Brain tumor and allowing more effectiveness and efficiency , safe and easy ways of treating tumor patients, enabling better tumor control rates without disabling surgery and without all the risks associated with it. For more information please visit: http://www.thornburygammaknife.co.uk
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