Talk:Radiosurgery
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[edit] Quite
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)
- Thank you for sharing your expertise. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:52, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Good article?
I wonder if this article would pass a Good Article review. If there are regular editors hanging out, perhaps you'd like to look up the criteria and do an informal, off-the-record review. If it seems to meet the criteria, then you could propose an official review. (If it seems not to meet the criteria, then I'd definitely not propose a formal review until you've had a chance to fix any perceived problems or omissions.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:52, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] different kinds of brain surgery(s)
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[edit] experience
I am not a doctor, but i have been a subjected to radiosurgey five years ago(I am nineteen now), and am now meant to go through with it again in a matter of days.
I'm not sure how other outpatients' experiences with radiosurgery have been, but the thought of having to endure it once again almost makes me wish myself dead. So,I'm not sure that the extract 'The period of recovery is minimal, and in the day following the treatment the patient may return to his or her normal life style, without any discomfort. ' from the introduction to the article has any truth to it.
Am I alone in suffering the disatrous effects of radiosurgey,both temporary and permanent, or should that section of the article be revised?
(155.239.144.101 (talk) 23:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC))
