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ACTIVE ALUMNI WORLDWIDE
Gamma Knife
External beam therapy for brain tumors once meant purple tattoos and damaging doses of radiation. Radiosurgery transformed the field, and this year M Health Fairview physicians became the first in Minnesota to treat brain tumor patients with a new tool—the Gamma Knife Icon.
Capable of focusing radiation beams from different angles to a small target, the Gamma Knife targets treatment areas within 0.15 mm, or the width of two human hairs. While each beam delivers a small radiation dose well- tolerated by the brain, the point where the beams converge receives a combined dose high enough to eradicate tumor cells.
Radiosurgery is particularly beneficial for patients with brain metastases. With Gamma Knife, the metastatic tumor can be targeted, leaving the surrounding normal brain untouched.
44%
ALUMNI PRACTICING IN SMALL COMMUNITIES
September
Medical School pilots house system for medical students to provide a new network of support.
189 Medical School faculty make Minnesota Monthly Magazine’s 2019 “Top Doctors” list.
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