May 19, 2016, Elekta -- At the 18th International Leksell Gamma Knife® Society Meeting in Amsterdam, (May 15-19), Elekta announced that Leksell Gamma Knife, the most clinically-proven radiosurgery system available, has been used in the treatment of more than one million patients afflicted with brain tumors, vascular malformations and functional disorders.

Today, Gamma Knife surgery is performed on more than 75,000 patients every year in hundreds of leading hospitals and clinics around the world. The average clinical volume per treatment site has also steadily grown each year due to a proliferation of supporting clinical evidence and product enhancements that improve clinical efficiency.

“Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery has evolved from a truly disruptive technological innovation to a mainstay of modern radiation surgery and neurosurgery and it has become the most clinically proven and comprehensively studied stereotactic radiosurgery platform in history,” said Dr. Laurent Leksell, Elekta’s Founder and Chairman of the Board. “We are grateful to the dedication and innovation demonstrated by our global clinical partners and collaborators who have been instrumental in helping us continue to improve Gamma Knife technology to better address the needs of brain tumor patients and clinicians.”
Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™, the newest generation of the system, is currently being used to treat patients in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Icon expands on the proven capabilities of Gamma Knife, while providing additional frameless flexibility for either accurate single dose administration or fractionated multiple treatment sessions over time enabling treatment of larger tumor volumes, targets close to critical brain structures and new or recurring brain metastases. In the coming months, installations of Icon are planned at several leading centers including The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), University of Virginia Health System (Charlottesville, Virginia), The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (Lausanne, Switzerland).

Metastatic brain tumors and other neurological disorders negatively impact survival and quality of life in a large and growing patient population. Worldwide, more than 256,000 new cases of brain and other CNS tumors are diagnosed annually, with an estimated 189,000 deaths.[i]

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