Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Renal Cell Carcinoma and Melanoma Brain Metastases—Comparison of Dose Response.

Financial support and presentations: Dr. Yoichi Watanabe received a grant from the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview to support this manuscript. Portions of this manuscript were presented as posters at the 14th Leksell Gamma Knife Society meeting, Quebec, Canada, May 2008; 9th Congress of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society, Seoul, South Korea, June 7-11, 2009; 15th Leksell Gamma Knife Society meeting, Athens, Greece, May 17-20, 2010; and Background: Metastatic melanoma appears to have inferior local control (LC) than renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) to the brain.