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How to Choose the Best Radiosurgery Treatment. Chapter 17 — Brain Metastases: A Documentary

This chapter outlines how to identify an institution with a quality radiosurgery program. Watch the entire documentary from the beginning here:    • Brain Metastases: A Documentary | How Brai...   Radiosurgery has evolved a lot in the 20 years since it first started being used to treat tumors. It's hard, even for clinicians, to know if a hospital can provide high quality treatments. Independent accreditation programs exist to help patients identify these high quality institutions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Transcript: Timothy Solberg, PHD: Radiosurgery is still somewhat new. Twenty years is fairly new. There is a wide variety in the standard of care that you can get. David Roberge, MD: Radiosurgery has evolved quite a bit and it’s a double-edged sword that radiosurgery, especially for brain metastases, can now be done in relatively small clinics with general radiotherapy equipment and the quality might not be exactly the same in that setting than in a large institution that has a device dedicated to radiosurgery and it’s not easy for a patient or even for myself walking in the door to know is this a quality radiosurgery program. TS: Well there is never a guarantee that there’s not going to be a problem. Novalis Certified is the only program in the world that has an independent group come in and look at your program and say yep, you really perform stereotactic radiosurgery at a universally high level from a clinical perspective, from a technical perspective, physics, quality assurance, all of these things. That’s a very valuable indication. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interested in learning more? See our other chapters below that address many questions regarding brain metastases: What are brain metastases?    • What are Brain Metastases? Chapter 1 — Bra...   How do brain metastases develop and what causes them?    • What Causes Brain Metastases? Chapter 2 — ...   What are the possible treatment options for brain metastases?    • Is Chemotherapy Effective for Brain Metast...   What is Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT) and how is it used to treat brain metastases?    • What is Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBR...   What is stereotactic radiosurgery?    • What is Stereotactic Radiosurgery? Chapter...   What is the Gamma Knife?    • What is the Gamma Knife? Chapter 6 — Brain...   What is a linear accelerator and how does it work?    • What is a Linear Accelerator? Chapter 7 — ...   Frame-based vs. frameless radiosurgery. What’s the difference and how does it impact the patient and treatment?    • How are Patients Immobilized During Radiat...   How does Cyberknife technology treat brain tumors?    • What is the CyberKnife? Chapter 9 — Brain ...   What is a multileaf collimator and what role does it play in radiosurgery?    • What is Shaped Beam Radiosurgery? Chapter ...   What if a patient has more than one brain metastases? How are they treated?    • Can Multiple Tumors Be Treated at the Same...   Some radiosurgery treatments can be completed in just one visit. Why are multiple treatments (known as fractions) sometimes necessary?    • When is Radiosurgery Performed More than O...   If it can harm the patient, why is Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT) still done?    • Why is Whole Brain Radiation Therapy Still...   What does “Cancer is being treated as a chronic illness" mean? How do brain metastases patients maintain their quality of life?    • What Happens After Radiosurgery? Chapter 1...   Why is surgery sometimes necessary to treat brain metastases?    • When is Surgery Recommended? Chapter 15 — ...   What is the future outlook a brain metastases diagnosis?    • What is the Future of Brain Metastases Tre...