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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: Richey on June 18, 2011, 06:36:38 am

Title: Latest MRI followup after Gamma Knife
Post by: Richey on June 18, 2011, 06:36:38 am

It's been a while since I posted anything here or even looked. Just got busy with other things and after a while got tired of talking about the little bugger in my head.
My GK shot was done in Feb 05 and the first MRI afterward showed a tumor that was a little larger than originally seen and measuring  9 x 7mm at this time, after that time all the MRI's were very similar with slight variations on the size. In 09 I  decided to wait two years before doing another MRI. In 09 the measurement was 10 x 6.4 mm

Had another done this week and for the first time the interpretation was that the tumor has decreased in size now measuring 7.6 x 4.5 mm

Thankful and looking forward down here in a very hot South Carolina

This is of course good news and I feel at this point that I made the right choice for me on my treatment choice. I like most of you have had side affects and no longer have any hearing on the AN side but otherwise I have managed well.

I will wait a least two more years before looking again unless there would be a reason to think it otherwise was needed.

Title: Re: Latest MRI followup after Gamma Knife
Post by: Jim Scott on June 18, 2011, 01:40:43 pm

Hi, Richey ~

Thanks for the update and congratulations on your apparently successful Gamma Knife treatment!  No need to apologize for moving on with your life.  See you in two years - and try to stay cool this summer!  :)

Jim

Title: Re: Latest MRI followup after Gamma Knife
Post by: TJ on June 19, 2011, 10:15:37 am

Richey

That is the news we all hope for.  Those of us that choose readiation look forward to the MRI that shows that it has become smaller.  I am still waiting for that news, hopefully in November.

Good Luck

TJ

Title: Re: Latest MRI followup after Gamma Knife
Post by: Vivian B. on June 23, 2011, 06:17:55 am

Richey,

Great news. As a post GK patient, It's always good to hear success. I also had my one Year MRI yesterday, so far so good. Next one is one year. Keep up the good recovery. By the way, I though that with radiation, you needed to do an MRI yearly for life?

Vivian

Title: Re: Latest MRI followup after Gamma Knife
Post by: Richey on June 23, 2011, 07:36:19 pm

I guess it depends on the doc as to the yearly thing but mine wanted me to wait two years and I have heard that the older you get the less chance there is of the tumor growing. I actually had a different doc order this last one and he wants me to come back in a year and he may want to do it then but I do feel pretty good that it had not changed much in all the other MRI's and then was a little smaller this time. Who knows with the way insurance is changing and me headed into medicare next year. I can only wonder how long they will approve getting them done so often.