Success stories
According to the University of Michigan Health System, “With 40 years of clinical use and over 3,000 published peer review studies, the Gamma Knife has proven to be the most accurate and effective radiosurgery treatment system. Worldwide over one million people have been treated with this technology.”
At a glance
Since 1967 when the first Gamma Knife prototype was used to treat a patient, over one million people worldwide have undergone Gamma Knife surgery with an excellent record of successful and safe treatment.
In South Africa, since 2017, some 1,000 patients have been treated at the Gamma Knife South Africa unit.
Gamma Knife South Africa is all about excellence in care and treatment, and ensuring our patients receive world class care and support.
Journeys to hope
Gamma Knife Icon patient’s guide to treatment
Gamma Knife treatment arrests the growth of a Pretoria businessman’s vestibular schwannoma
Michael Burmester is a Pretoria-based businessman who runs his own company that constructs power lines for heavy power generation. He learned his trade at the ...
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I feel great!
Monica Singer was diagnosed with a meningioma in 2012. “I could not believe that the meningioma was so big. I had been suffering with vertigo ...
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Acoustic neuroma patient’s long wait is over
“One morning, I woke up and I couldn’t hear in my right ear anymore. I went to the GP, and then to an ear, nose ...
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Melanie Thomson suffered with trigeminal neuralgia
Melanie Thomson who hails from Johannesburg suffered with trigeminal neuralgia for about eight years. She experienced headaches and ‘spikes’ of severe pain through the jaw, ...
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