Dr. Gil Lederman talks about the non invasive radiosurgery treatment for patients with stage 3/4 cancer.

1. How Can Radiosurgery Save Your Life
Having cancer is like a curse; it’s like fighting a losing battle with death already waiting at the
door. However, advancement in medical technology has created an armament to fight cancer
with, in the form of Radiosurgery!
Radiosurgery is a glitter of hope in the fight with cancer, where there used to be negligible or
almost none. It may not be a comprehensive and thoroughly successful arsenal of weapons for all
types of cancer yet, but at least it is already successful with some, and more updates are
anticipated in the near future.

2. Radiosurgery is a treatment procedure where the patient is subjected to radiation to destroy
particular areas of tissue instead of being removed with a blade. It is a kind of radiotherapy
which is now more popularly being used to cure cancer.
Earlier, when the cancer patient undergoes whole body radiation therapy; the cancer matters, and
occasionally even the nearby healthy ones, are destroyed. Recently, stereotactic radiosurgery has
been implemented so that the radiation beam is directed strictly only to the region of the tumor.
The focused beam delivers a very high dose of radiation to that well-defined spot in order to
tackle the brain disorder in one day. The high-dosage radiation beam is aimed precisely on the
tumor and leaves the nearby healthy tissues undamaged. The treatment is usually painless and
executed only once, though some may require up to 5 periods of stereotactic radiosurgery.
However, this procedure is not usually advisable for larger tumors because targeting a large area
cannot be accomplished with great accuracy.
A fast and accurate stereotactic radiosurgery is very important because it reduces the possibility
of body or tumor movements as it hits and destroys the target tissue in one dose of treatment.
New stereotactic radiosurgery features even included a lot of other attributes to ensure the
highest level of treatment accuracy possible for the patient.
As a result, more cancer patients are able to win their battle with cancer. The cancer can be
treated very quickly as soon as discovered. There is less injury to nearby healthy organs and

3. other soft tissues. The treatment outcomes are better and with fewer side effects because of the
accuracy of the treatment.
Today, cancer can be just another common illness; the percentage of survival after cancer has
started to rise and the future is getting to look brighter than before.
Gil Lederman is a certified medical doctor who specializes in Oncology and Internal Medicine.
He currently resides in New York City and has a passion of educating people about health.