{"id":110796,"date":"2020-08-03T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/zap-surgical-to-bring-world-class-brain-tumor-treatments-to-rural-german-hospital"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:27:10","slug":"zap-surgical-to-bring-world-class-brain-tumor-treatments-to-rural-german-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/zap-surgical-to-bring-world-class-brain-tumor-treatments-to-rural-german-hospital","title":{"rendered":"ZAP Surgical to Bring World-Class Brain Tumor Treatments to Rural German Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zap-surgical-to-bring-world-class-brain-tumor-treatments-to-rural-german-hospital3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 19, 2020 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 ZAP Surgical Systems, Inc. today announced an agreement with Bonifatius Hospital in Lingen, Germany to acquire ZAP-X\u00ae stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) technology.<\/p>\n<p>SRS is a well-known and effective procedure for non-invasively treating select brain tumors and brain metastases. However, significant acquisition and radiation shielding costs of historical SRS systems have limited widespread access to this potentially life-saving therapy. Consequently, scarce availability of SRS treatment has remained heavily concentrated in large urban hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 19, 2020 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 ZAP Surgical Systems, Inc. today announced an agreement with Bonifatius Hospital in Lingen, Germany to acquire ZAP-X\u00ae stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) technology. SRS is a well-known and effective procedure for non-invasively treating select brain tumors and brain metastases. However, significant acquisition and radiation shielding costs of historical SRS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}