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Share Your Brain Tumor type & Years since Diagnosis

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In late 2016 I had an MRI for an unrelated matter and it was discovered that I had a golfball-sized meningioma. In January of 2017 I had a craniotomy to remove the meningioma, which was graded as II (atypical). I had regular MRIs until August of 2022 when a recurrence was detected in the resection cavity. In December of 2022 I had Gamma Knife. In June of this year, my MRI showed around 25% shrinkage to the tumor, but it also showed another tumor growing in a different area of my brain (which had not been noticed in the August MRI and that had grown around 25% since then). I had another Gamma Knife procedure in early July to (hopefully) shrink the third tumor. All of these procedures were done at UCSF.

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sig67: I had a craniotomy at UCSF eleven months ago to remove a meningioma. I am now under the watch-and-wait protocol for 2 other meningiomas. Six months ago the neurologist offered I may have to have them radiated. I have a follow up MRI in October. In some ways I'm more afraid of the radiation than the surgery. After having the craniotomy, how traumatic (for lack of a better word) was the gamma knife treatment?