Press Release: Operating brain cancer without a knife

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Series Details IP/00/735 (10.7.00)
Publication Date 10/07/2000
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Research co-funded by the European Commission has helped produce a radical breakthrough that now enables brain surgery to be carried out without the use of a knife. Cancer and other brain tumours can now be treated using a combination of an instrument called Gamma Knife and an imaging technique called PET, which is unique in the world.

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