American Shared Hospital’s GK Financing announces upgrading at GKCE

GK Financing announced that it has demonstrated its continued commitment in Ecuador by completing the installation of a new state-of-the-art Elekta Gamma Knife ICON at the Company’s wholly owned Gamma Knife Center, GKCE. The first patient was treated successfully on November 14, 2023, after completion of clinical acceptance. The total downtime for removal, installation and acceptance testing took just six weeks to perform. Gamma Knife ICON includes a variety of innovations now available in a single platform, including offering clinicians the option of performing frameless or frame-based immobilization workflows with the Leksell headframe, both of which provide superior visualization. Peter Gaccione, CEO of American Shared Hospital Services and Board Member of GKCE, said, “We are so pleased to provide this latest advanced treatment technology to our Center in Ecuador. The Gamma Knife ICON offers more clinical throughput, features, and benefits to patients, such as faster treatment times, masked-based immobilization, and same day CT Imaging and treatments when applicable. These expanded options will benefit our patients in Ecuador in their fight against cancer.”