Editing Radiosurgery (section)

==Risks==
''[[The New York Times]]'' reported in December 2010 that radiation overdoses had occurred with the linear accelerator method of radiosurgery, due in large part to inadequate safeguards in equipment retrofitted for stereotactic radiosurgery.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/health/29radiation.html | title = A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = 2010-12-28}}</ref> In the U.S. the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) regulates these devices, whereas the Gamma Knife is regulated by the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]].

This is evidence that [[Cancer immunotherapy|immunotherapy]] may be useful for treatment of radiation necrosis following stereotactic radiotherapy.<ref name="pmid28368903">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kaidar-Person O, Zagar TM, Deal A, Moschos SJ, Ewend MG, Sasaki-Adams D, Lee CB, Collichio FA, Fried D, Marks LB, Chera BS | display-authors = 6 | title = The incidence of radiation necrosis following stereotactic radiotherapy for melanoma brain metastases: the potential impact of immunotherapy | journal = Anti-Cancer Drugs | volume = 28 | issue = 6 | pages = 669–675 | date = July 2017 | pmid = 28368903 | doi = 10.1097/CAD.0000000000000497 | s2cid = 3560210 }}</ref>