A Retrospective on Twenty-Five Years of Acoustic Neuroma Treatment

Columbia Neurosurgery’s team as featured in the ANA’s March 2025 News Alert, Acoustic Neuroma: Recent Considerations for Radiation Therapy, highlighted our recent studies that have benefitted from the program’s high volume of diverse patients where we have been able to provide procedure types across a spectrum of treatments. To provide further expertise,  Dr. Michael Sisti, James G. McMurtry III MD Professor of Neurological Surgery in Radiation Oncology and Co-Director of the Center for Radiosurgery  shared additional perspective.

Says Dr. Sisti, “This article summarizes the approach to having all the people and tools of modern medicine to treat every acoustic patient individually to maximize patients' outcomes of tumor control, smiling and hearing while minimizing treatment risks and recovery times. Over the last 25 years, we have treated over a thousand acoustic patients by these methods. Most importantly our published results of patients treated at Columbia in peer reviewed journals which are listed below and available to download online from the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine via PubMed.”

Dr. Sisti continued, “Perhaps the most recent and important of these publications is our 25-year acoustic neuroma treatment results by Gamma Knife radiosurgery and microsurgery with long term follow of 751 acoustic patients just published via World Neurosurgery, March 2025. As always, we are committed to provide our knowledge and compassion as defined by the doctor patient relationship to optimize the patients' goals to return to good health.”

As acoustic neuroma treatment options continue to evolve, Columbia Neurosurgery is well-positioned to continue to provide its world-class care and remain a leader in the field of Gamma Knife Surgery Centers worldwide.

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