Event: CME Conference: Advances in Radiosurgery - Celebrating Yale New Haven Gamma Knife Center's 10th anniversary
Date: Friday, Sept. 12, 2008
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Description: The use of the delivery of focused radiation therapy (radiosurgery) for nervous system diseases has markedly escalated over the past decade.  Using a machine called the Gamma Knife, the field has evolved from one where radiosurgery was used for the treatment of benign brain conditions refractory to other therapies,  to one where it is now used in some brain cancers as  the first line of treatment.  Its effectiveness and side effect profiles are vastly different from that of conventional radiation therapy.  Given the success of radiosurgery, machines such as the Cyberknife and Novalis have now been designed to deliver similar treatments to cancer in other parts of the body
Location: New Haven Lawn Club
More information: Go to: cme.yale.edu