Stereotactic radiosurgery alone or with whole brain radiation therapy has been shown to achieve excellent local tumor control.
Linear accelerators are also widely used in medicine, for radiotherapy and radiosurgery.
Although radiosurgery can seldom completely destroy a tumor, it can often arrest its growth or reduce its size.
Technological improvements in medical imaging and computing have led to increased clinical adoption of stereotactic radiosurgery and have broadened its scope in recent years.
Radiosurgery is indicated primarily for the therapy of tumors, vascular lesions and functional disorders.
Radiation therapy can include cyberknife radiosurgery or fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy, or proton therapy.
It is clear that more data are required on the incidence of conditions for which radiosurgery is indicated, its effectiveness and side effects.
These were then combined with the terms radiosurgery or stereotaxic or stereotactic (in the title or descriptor field).
