Cyberknife surgery for Meniogima side effects?

Posted by poodlemomfour @poodlemomfour, Jan 5 10:47am

I am having Cybernight Surgery for a Meniogima side effects. I am afraid and claustrophobic.

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@mkoch

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.

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I believe that is why my neurosurgeon is pushing gamma knife. They don’t have proton therapy

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