Radiosurgery is not surgery. Body Radiosurgery is pinpoint precision radiation using multiple, precisely-contoured beams from many different angles -- all directed at the cancer - sparing normal and healthy tissue from exposure to harmful radiation. 
Staten Island University Hospital's long experience with radiosurgery for brain tumors made it a likely facility to introduce radiosurgery in America for tumors outside the skull.
Radiosurgery is not surgery. Body Radiosurgery is pinpoint precision radiation using multiple, precisely-contoured beams from many different angles -- all directed at the cancer - sparing normal and healthy tissue from exposure to harmful radiation.
Radiosurgery is the non-invasive delivery of precise, high-dose radiation which can be used in support of other cancer-treatment therapies or when surgery, standard radiation and chemotherapy are not active options or have not been previously effective. In other cases, patients may wish to avoid the undesired effects of chemotherapy or standard radiation.
Because Body Radiosurgery is so precise, potent doses of radiation can be delivered over a shorter period of time. And, with higher radiation doses, fewer treatments are necessary.
Physicians, physicists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, nurses and other professionals are involved in the Radiosurgery treatment process. Radiologists, pathologists, medical oncologists and surgeons are also involved in the overall cancer treatment program at Staten Island University Hospital.
Typically a treatment plan at Staten Island University Hospital will specify up to ten customized radiation fields, approaching from a variety of angles and finely collimated to deliver potent radiation directly to the tumor while minimizing the exposure of healthy surrounding tissue. Each beam is individually contoured for the shape and size of a patient's cancer.
Body Radiosurgery patients generally are able to immediately continue their normal activities. Body Radiosurgery is performed normally as outpatient therapy.
For more information on Body Radiosurgery, please contact the Radiosurgery Center at Staten Island University Hospital
at 1-718-226-8862.