Neo-Adjuvant SRS Versus En Bloc Resection Challenges
- Event: 6th International Conference of the Novalis Circle 2016
- Topic: Brain Metastasis
- Year: 2016
Anthony Asher, MD, from Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates discusses neo-adjuvant radiosurgery versus en bloc resection. He outlines that select patients can benefit from resection of cerebral metastases and there appears to be a broad consensus that some form of adjuvant radiation should be combined with surgery to reduce the risk of local occurrence. Dr. Asher explores the forms of this adjuvant radiotherapy: Whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) and preoperative as well as postoperative radiosurgery. He then discusses in more detail neo-adjuvant radiosurgery using case examples.
About the speaker
Anthony Asher, MD
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates Charlotte, USA
Director at Atrium Healthcare System Neuroscience Institute and Neurosurgery Residency Program Director at Carolinas Medical Center.
He is also Clinical Professor in Neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University.
He is Past-President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons and is a former Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Asher serves as Director, National Quality and Outcomes Database and is Vice Chairman, National Neurosurgery Quality Council.
He is Chairman, Privacy and Research Task Force of the AMA National Quality Registry Network Council (NQRN), and is a member of the NQRN Steering Committee.
He is a past member of the National Quality Forum Surgery Standing Committee, past Chairman of the Brain Organ Site Group of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, and has served as an advisor to the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.
Dr. Asher is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has been elected to the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and Society of Neurological Surgeons.
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