Benefits of Gamma Knife surgery

At Bupa Cromwell Hospital

As all of our diagnostic equipment is under one roof, patients can be scanned, mapped and treated without being transferred from one location to another;
Our Gamma Knife Centre is headed up two professors of Gamma Knife surgery with over 45 years of gamma knife surgery between them. They have also been responsible for training many other neurosurgeons all over the world to use the Leskell Gamma Knife;
We have been recommended by the London Specialised Commissioning Group to provide Radiosurgery for NHS patients;
We were the first private hospital in London to have a Gamma Knife and have since successfully treated over 1,500 patients

It destroys abnormalities without harming normal brain tissue, adjacent nerves and blood;
It is the most accurate radiation treatment system available;
There is no incision; the head does not need to be shaved; there are no scars to heal; there is no risk of haemorrhage or infection; there is no hair loss or nausea;
Treatment is painless and in most cases requires no general anaesthetic;
Generally just one treatment is needed because the Gamma Knife delivers an extremely focused and precise dose of local radiation. Hence the Gamma Knife is used to treat even patients with multiple brain metasteses in one single session. In some cases more than 10 tumours have been treated in one Gamma Knife treatment in order to prevent a disruption of the systemic cancer therapy;
Patients make a very fast recovery and can resume their normal activities in a day or two;
It offers crucial flexibility, treating metastases in areas of the brain which surgery can't reach, such as the brainstem;
It can generally be applied for tumours that do not respond well to conventional fractionated radiotherapy such as renal cancer and malignant melanoma;
It can be applied even in cases of tumour progression after conventional fractionated radiotherapy