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Cyberknife surgery for Meniogima side effects?
Brain Tumor | Last Active: Jan 15 9:44am | Replies (11)Comment receiving replies
Another detailed and thoughtful response! I agree they should give us all options, and inform us of what will happen. I had a partial excision of my Meningioma through my sinuses. No one talked to me about issues with sinuses or that my head would be bolted with a halo. I just woke up with painful, bloody holes in my scalp. He said I will need radiation at some point for the remaining tumor and keeps saying gamma knife, but I don’t want another halo! I’m hopeful I could do proton therapy instead. Thank you again, you’re most helpful to talk to!
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After your first question posed to CSCMaryann (4 days ago) I decided, for my own benefit, to further research gammaknife versus cyberknife. As you know, I had a craniotomy just over a year ago so that operation had been my focus. However, now that I am on watch-and-wait for two other meningiomas, (and the neurosurgeon said we would only utilize radiation for those, if necessary) I wanted to get up to speed on gamma versus cyber. I usually only read information from Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson, UCSF, Stanford, Johns-Hopkins) but in my search I found this wonderful article, ""Cyberknife vs. Gammaknife," through" Summit Cancer Centers,
A Division of American Oncology Partners, P.A." After reading this, I have decided to go with Cyberknife. My conundrum is that only Gammaknife is offered at UCSF, where my neurosurgeon is. But I think there is a hospital in San Jose, about an hour from San Francisco, that is affiliated with UCSF, and offers only Cyberknife, where I can get the procedure done if that becomes necessary.