What We Treat
The types of tumors and benign abnormalities that can be treated at the Trilogy Image-Guided Treatment Center are quite varied (see the list below). The Trilogy™ technology is augmented by the use of ExacTrac monitoring to ensure a level of precision unequaled in the world. One use of the ExacTrac® monitoring system allows for “gating” of treatments to body lesions according to the breathing cycle, allowing millimeter accuracy in treating such tumors as cancers in the lung, spine and liver.
The Trilogy System enables our neurosurgeons and oncologists to treat many tumors and other abnormalities of the head and brain without the need for a rigid head frame fixed to the skull.
Neurosurgical Lesions
- Benign Brain Tumors
- Meningioma
- Vestibular Schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma)
- Grade I Astrocytoma
- Neurofibroma
- Hemangioblastoma
- Malignant Brain Tumors
- Metastatic tumors* - spread from other sites in the body
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
- Melanoma
- Other cancers
- Primary Brain Tumors* – tumors that start in the brain
- Glioblastoma
- Oligodendroglioma
- Astrocytoma
- Oligoastrocytoma
- Other Brain Abnormalities
- AVM’s (arteriovenous malformations)
- Tic douloureux (trigeminal neuralgia)
- Spinal Abnormalities
- Metastatic spine tumors* - spread to the bone from other sites in the body
- Benign spine tumors
- Vertebral hemangiomas
Non-neurosurgical Abnormalities
- Primary Cancers of the Body including
- Lung Cancer
- Liver Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Others
- Metastatic Cancers of the Body
- Lung Metastases - spread to the lung from other sites in the body
- Liver Metastases - spread to the liver from other sites in the body
*Precision treatment of these tumors with Trilogy technology is often combined with carefully designed, stereotactically planned external beam radiotherapy, to obtain the maximum effect on the tumor, with maximum safety.
