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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: Formyfriend on January 17, 2016, 02:00:25 pm

Title: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
Post by: Formyfriend on January 17, 2016, 02:00:25 pm

What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist? How did you make your decision  choosing radiation ?
Thanks

Title: Re: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
Post by: arizonajack on January 17, 2016, 07:40:00 pm

I accumulated a few studies about GK.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/857604-overview#showall

http://thejns.org/doi/pdf/10.3171/2012.7.GKS12783

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19050660

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19783373

In this last link some of the articles have font glitches but you can copy the text into a word processor and increase the font size so you can read the articles.

http://anworld.com/newbies/LedermanPapers.html#article7

I chose GK because I was 65, I was already deaf on the AN side, the tumor was small.

Title: Re: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
Post by: mcrue on January 19, 2016, 05:10:19 am

Plus, I keep reading about younger-and-younger people opting for radiation. Even teenagers.

Title: Re: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
Post by: Formyfriend on January 19, 2016, 10:24:59 pm

Thank you Arizonajack and Mcrew.

All the best,
Elena