NEED FOR THE PRESENT STUDY The finding of significant long-term effects in a large proportion of brain tumour survivors mandates the development of treatment strategies designed to minimise their impact on the quality of life. Although the precise role of radiotherapy in the causation of various post treatment sequelae is not established, it is generally believed to be at least partly responsible for these effects. There have been attempts to modify the management in terms of avoiding, delaying radiotherapy or reducing the total radiation dose to the tumour with a view to reduce its impact on the long-term toxicity. However, reduction of radiotherapy doses to the tumour has been shown to result in poorer local control rates. Also, a majority of the patients in whom the radiation is delayed eventually do require radiotherapy at later stages (37). There is also evidence that radiotherapy given upfront yields superior disease control than radiotherapy given at the time of tumour progression (38,39). In light of this data, there is therefore, an ever-increasing need to explore techniques of radiotherapy minimising the irradiation to the normal brain and critical structures without compromising radiotherapy doses essential for tumour control. SCRT is a modern high-precision radiotherapy technique, which reduces the volume of normal brain irradiated and has the capability to minimise the doses to critical structures.