Treating brain tumors with ZAP-X® gyroscopic radiosurgery™: What you need to know.

Watch MedStar Health Radiation Oncologists Dr. Brian Collins and Dr. Andrew Satinsky participate in a ZOOM discussion with ZAP-X patient J. Michael McKinney. The panel answers important questions about ZAP-X® gyroscopic radiosurgery™ - a non-invasive treatment option for brain tumors.
For more information about ZAP-X, please visit MedStarHealth.org/ZAPX

[@shantanusapru]

When the patient is positioned in the ZAP-X machine:
a) How are the fiducials on the mask matched to be in the correct position & alignment? I didn't see any lasers in the ZAP-X globe? Are there in-room lasers for that?
b) After matching of fiducials is done & patient is slid inside, how is position verification done? Using only 2D planar X-rays?
Most other Linac-based SRT/SRS methods (X-Knife) have a CBCT-based matching, which is far superior!

[@sharonstrauss1146]

How does this differ from cyberknife

[@shabbirhussain862]

Does this work on a grade 4 Glioblastoma in the corpus callosum

[@SufalSingh]

Dear Dr can it treat seizure TSC Tuberous sclerosis . .Brain with multiple tumors

[@katebruno9255]

Can you explain how this differs from traditional gamma knife surgery? You’ve used the word “eradicate” but we’ve been told gamma knife doesn’t shrink tumors but only stops further growth. It would be amazing to have the chance to shrink the tumor vs stop it’s growth

What you have learned is correct. There is no kind of radiation therapy that eradicates tumors except metastasis. However you can delete a metastasis it will eventually come back if the primary disease is not under control

[@kushalpadukone1419]

Wow

As if gamma knife does not exist

[@fotisk9940]

Can it be applied to medulloblastoma cases?