The focused, high-precision principle of stereotactic radiation applied to small targets in the brain — delivered in one or a few sessions, with no surgical incision.
Despite the name, SRS involves no scalpel: it is radiation so precisely focused that it acts like surgery on a small intracranial target.
SRS concentrates many converging beams onto a small, well-defined target in the brain, delivering a high dose to it while the dose to surrounding brain falls off sharply. It is completed in one or a few sessions.
Treatment relies on precise immobilisation and imaging. Dr. Bhatnagar will explain whether the size and location of your lesion make SRS appropriate, and how the session is carried out.
Despite the name there is no incision. SRS focuses a high dose of radiation onto a small target in the brain, delivered in one or a few sessions.
For selected small tumours and metastases it can be, and it avoids an operation and a hospital stay. Suitability depends on the size, number and position of the lesions.
Planning is detailed, but the treatment itself usually takes under an hour, and you go home the same day.
Response is gradual over weeks to months and is followed with imaging rather than judged immediately.
General information, not a substitute for a consultation. Your plan depends on your reports, stage and general health — discuss your case with Dr. Bhatnagar.
Bring your reports and scans for a consultation — he will tell you plainly whether radiation has a role.
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