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Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

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ninha06: In a five year period my sphenoid meningioma grew from 1.7 to 2.7 centimeters. So, about a two millimeter growth per year. As I've mentioned before, I was told by a neuro-radiation doctor that they don't like to use stereotactic radiation on tumors larger than 3 cm.

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ninha06 | @ninha06 | Jan 16 12:00pm

@mkoch Thank you.

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ninha06 | @ninha06 | Jan 30 3:11pm

Hi @mkoch and @gammaqueen, I hope you can help me with some insights. I had an appt for GK last week. The neuro oncologist said that it is technically doable since my meningioma is 2.5cm but that he recommended me normal surgery due to my age and health, I'm 46y and healthy. If I don't want to have the normal surgery he would do the GK but in 5 sessions, a very conservative approach. I understand he is trying to minimize edema since the tumor is almost at their maximum and a higher dose of radiation would be needed. Why is this? Isn't GK recommended to younger people? If so, why? Is it because of the radiation side effects? I was confused that his first recommendation was normal surgery. Thanks.

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