Image-Guided Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Dr Harun Badakhshi is Chief Physician and chairman of clinical radiation oncology at Ernst von Bergmann Medical Center, an academic teaching hospital of Humboldt University Berlin. He also serves as senior lecturer / assoc. professor at Charité School of Medicine Humboldt University Berlin, and is holding various functions in regional and European organizations and societies that are related to cancer research and education. He has previously worked as vice chairman of radiation oncology at University Hospital Charité. His research interest is primarily in neurooncology, lung and breast cancer, and metastases research. A focus of his research lies, especially, in studying effects of image-guided high precision radiotherapy for benign and malignant tumors, as well in investigations about curative potentials for cancer with oligometastases. He has published about 50 original peer-reviewed research papers to date and many reviews on different aspects of medicine, including prevention, education, health economics. He serves as a reviewer for more than 10 specialized journals, and as an appraiser for regional medical organizations and physician chamber.

Part I: Premises and Context.- Introduction.- Conceptual context.- Methodic remarks.- Radiobiological postulates for radiosurgery.- Current available technologies.-Part II: Radiosurgery for Benign brain lesions.- Vestibular schwannomas.- Meningiomas.- Arteriovenous malformations of the central nervous system.- Pituitary adenomas.- Part III: Radiosurgery for Cancer and its Metastases.- Brain Metastases.- Stereotactic radiosurgery for lung lesions.- Stereotactic radiosurgery for metastatic lesions of the spine.- Stereotactic radiosurgery for liver lesions.- Stereotactic radiosurgery for early-stage prostate cancer.- Future perspectives.