Treatment of central nervous system lesions by brain radiosurgery (STEREOTACTIC RADIOSUGERY - SRS) at Vinmec Central Park International General Hospital is a completely new technique in Vietnam. This technique has only been applied at the world's leading radiation therapy centers for about 10 years now. This is considered the most modern brain radiotherapy technique in Southeast Asia, bringing positive signals in the treatment of cancer.

Cancers that start in one part of the body can spread to other parts of the body. If a tumor has spread to the bone, this new cancer site is called a bone metastasis. In most cases, bone metastases are the result of the original spread of cancer cells to the bone. For example, a person with breast cancer will often metastasize to the bone.

Brain metastasis is when malignant or cancerous cells have spread from another part of the body to the brain. About 170,000 people were diagnosed with brain metastases in 2012, and brain metastases became more common than primary tumors, such as primary brain tumors (62,000 cases), lymphoma ) (79,000) or rectal cancer (103,000). When a person has a brain tumor, it is usually because the cancer has spread from other parts of the body to the brain. The most common types of cancer that metastasize to the brain are lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.

Radiation therapy is an almost indispensable method of cancer treatment, but today, in addition to conventional radiation therapy, there are many more advanced methods of radiation therapy, including radiation therapy with a linear accelerator.