•Shekhar Gupta: But it is amazing you will get down with the procedure, you can ride your bicycle home. And in fact I have had several patients do exactly that, ride your bicycle to the procedure, have your brain tumor killed then ride your bicycle home. So, I know its your baby but tell me how big a breakthrough its been in the treatment of certain kinds of cancer tumors.

John Adler: Well, it is more of an evolutionary process than some of this implies. The ideas are founded on top of something called the starcatic radio surgery and the gamini invented by my Guru, Lars Laksell.

•Shekhar Gupta: Large Laksell in Stolkholm

John Adler: Yeah, he is a very famous Swedish nurse researchers. One of the great man of the twentieth century. And many of these principles come from him but what he did was, allow us …give us a technology with a frame screwed in the skull to treat brain tumors and when I studied with him I reasoned that what works well on the brain should just work well on the rest of the body. That was the intellectual framework for what I developed…

•Shekhar Gupta: You after you finished at Harvard, went to Stolkholm to work with Lars and Laksell.

What took you to Stolkholm then? Were you focussed on this field?

John Adler: No, I wanted to have a good time. So, I figured I had spent too much time …

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