MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) – UW Health is offering a brain tumor treatment called GammaTile that delivers targeted radiation during surgery rather than after a patient recovers.
UW Health began offering GammaTile in October and has performed two procedures so far. Brett Morris, a radiation oncologist at UW Health, said both patients went home as expected after brain surgery without complications.
How GammaTile works
GammaTile uses small tiles with radioactive seeds. The tiles are placed in the surgical cavity, where the tumor was removed.
The radioactive source is embedded in a collagen tile about the size of a stamp. It is placed in the cavity after the surgeon removes all the tumor they can visibly see, to start radiation treatment to any microscopic disease that might remain…