Talk:Radiosurgery
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Quite extensive text about radiosurgery. I would expect to find something like this under "Radiation therapy" rather than "Radiosurgery" (which is just a special case of radiation therapy, in my opinion). -Bluejonah- 13:25, 13 DEC 2004 (UTC)
I changed "gamma knife" from a link because a fairly complete description is given within this page itself. The alternative would seem to be moving the description of the gamma knife out to its own page. I noticed this because the term was on the request list. Osmodiar 01:49, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I will do the separate gamma knife article, I agree with you. Now, regarding radiation therapy vs radiosurgery, experts agree with me that it is a specialized form or fractionated radiation therapy, more accurate, with special use of stereotactic or image guided aiming, so that it should be allocated a separate article. Also, the radiation therapy article is already too large. --R.Sabbatini 00:19, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I fixed the wiki syntax of the external links, but the links seem to be broken. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) - Talk 04:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Radiosurgery (or is is two words?) is not just for brain cancer anymore. It is now being used for head and neck, lung and cervical as I recall. The newest machines are able to track and adjust to body movement. Bwood 20:23, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
→Hi...I work in an academic Radiation Oncology center in the States...new to Wikipedia. Radiosurgery is, indeed, one word. However, it is only used - really - for intracranial lesions and AVM. It can also be used for trigeminal neuralgia. When using it away from the skull/brain you are then moving into something termed 'extracranial radiosurgery' and basing your plan on a bite block. Not as precise as within the cranium, but they are definitely getting there. Regardless, it definitely is not for head/neck, cervical, or lung. Those would be IMRT and 4D gating procedures. Also, it is not truly a fractionated treatment. Fractionated treatments are seen as given daily, where stereotactic radiosurgery is a bolus dose delivered in multiple beams, sometimes broken down into different segments. Regardless...I thought I would offer my help. Please let me know if you would like me to insert/add/read over anything. Thank you Kate St. John 07:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
