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Monmouth Medical Center offers first and only Gamma Knife treatment program in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Gamma Knife is revolutionary tool used to treat brain tumors and brain disorders.
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LONG BRANCH, NJ, May 9, 2011 – Monmouth Medical Center recently opened the Gamma Knife Center offering Leksell Gamma Knife, a high-tech non-invasive brain surgery tool, to treat conditions previously considered inaccessible or inoperable. The addition of this new technology to Monmouth Medical Center’s radiosurgery program, which also includes TomoTherapy, makes Monmouth a regional leader in the treatment of benign and malignant tumors as well as functional brain disorders. Monmouth Medical Center is also the only hospital in Monmouth and Ocean Counties to offer Gamma Knife.
The Gamma Knife is not a knife, but a highly developed treatment system that directs multiple beams of gamma radiation, to converge, with pinpoint accuracy, on a targeted abnormality within the brain. The Gamma Knife’s precision makes it appropriate for both pediatric and adult patients. Supported by well-documented research, evaluation and clinical use, Gamma Knife surgery is ideal for treating deep-seated brain tumors, functional and neurological disorders and vascular malformations.
According to neurosurgeon Ty J. Olson, M.D., Co-Medical Director of the Gamma Knife Center at Monmouth Medical Center, “Gamma Knife is the gold standard for non-invasive treatment of brain disorders and brain metastases.” “The accuracy of Gamma Knife surgery is unmatched and offers the precision of ‘painting’ with a fine brush,” he explains. “There is no incision, no blood and is virtually painless. Even with microsurgery, patients undergoing a craniotomy can expect to spend several days in the hospital and some time for recovery,” said Dr. Olson. “Non-invasive Gamma Knife surgery is completed in a matter of hours. Patients generally go home the same day, resuming normal activity immediately.”
Over the past few decades, Gamma Knife has become the most trusted radiosurgery product in the world, with more than 40,000 people treated every year. There are more than 200 Gamma Knives in operation around the world, and only four in New Jersey.
The Gamma Knife Center, led by Dr. Olson and Co-Medical Director Sang Sim, M.D., radiation oncologist, offers a multidisciplinary team of experts including Jack Yang, Ph.D., chief physicist, and Becky Kopke, R.N., B.S.N., O.S.N., assistant clinical coordinator of radiation oncology, as well as a full team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuro-radiologists and neuro-oncologists.
The opening of the Gamma Knife Center, in conjunction with the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center at the Leon Hess Cancer Center, places Monmouth Medical Center at the forefront of modern benign and cancer treatments. With the opening of the brain tumor center, Monmouth became the first hospital in central and southern New Jersey providing a full spectrum of comprehensive services to treat benign and malignant tumors originating in the brain and spinal cord as well as neurological complications of metastatic cancer. The introduction of Gamma Knife technology is the latest advancement at Monmouth Medical Center, which is equipped with the most technologically advanced systems for the treatment of neurological disorders in all of Monmouth and Ocean counties.
Dr. Sim says the addition of this technology at Monmouth Medical Center brings a very powerful, individualized approach to brain treatment, close to home. “The best aspect of the Gamma Knife Center is that each patient has access to an expert team that develops a treatment plan entirely customized to his or her condition,” said Dr. Sim.
To learn more about the Gamma Knife Center at Monmouth Medical Center, call 732-923-6562 or visit www.monmouthgammaknife.com.
May 9, 2011
CONTACT: Carrie Cristello
(732) 923-6552
ccristello@barnabashealth.org
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