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Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

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Oh, darn, just reread what I posted in response to your reply and a correction needs to be made. The last sentence regarding the window closing for radiation therapy. It should be the window closes somewhere between 3 and 4 Centimeters, not millimeters. I am sorry for this typo. I guess I forgot to proof read. So you are still a candidate for radiation. Also, you are 67 years young; I was 72 when I had a craniotomy to remove a large meningioma that was almost 3 centimeters. By the way, the neurologist I consulted with initially gave me wrong information and said my benign tumor was inoperable. So I encourage you to now consult with a neurosurgeon, especially given you feel as if the neurologist didn't really discuss your situation at length. It's your brain, after all, and deserve to have all the details and options discussed.

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My neurologist and neuro oncologist tell me that my Mengioma is inoperable. Neurologist yesterday answered saying that the meningioma can not be removed from the trigeminal nerve. I am only 59 and after reading this a second opinion is absolutely needed.