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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: Patti on March 01, 2016, 09:47:31 am

Title: 3 Month MRI
Post by: Patti on March 01, 2016, 09:47:31 am

I got the good results yesterday.  There is no growth and no swelling.  I do realize that this is only 3 months but I'll take the news!  Patti

Title: Re: 3 Month MRI
Post by: tdlight on March 01, 2016, 10:14:52 am

Congratulations!  Good news is good news. 

Is a three month MRI standard for SRS? What kind of treatment was it you had?

Title: Re: 3 Month MRI
Post by: Patti on March 01, 2016, 05:17:07 pm

It's so odd of me not to have the details at the tip of my fingers.  When we found the re-growth we went straight to my previous neurosurgeon and he set me up with a radiation-oncologist he trusted. I think it was photon radiation delivered by a linear accelerator.  I don't know why I had to have imaging done at 3 months.  I thought 6 months was the norm.  I never asked.  Patti 

Title: Re: 3 Month MRI
Post by: markandrew67 on March 01, 2016, 06:44:07 pm

Congratulations, Patti, that is really good news.

I had a 2.7cm AN removed 12 days ago (retrosigmoid) and the neurosurgeon James Liu (university hospital newark NJ) would like a 3 month MRI- he says it's standard for the type of surgery he does.

So far, so good. walking well, just slight dizziness, no nausea, no headaches, no facial issues, only sad thing for me is the left sided deafness- but I'm happy with how everything else has turned out.

Peace!
mark

Title: Re: 3 Month MRI
Post by: Patti on March 02, 2016, 07:28:01 am

That's a great outcome Mark.  The hearing thing sucks but thankfully we have two ears!!!!!!!  Patti

Title: Re: 3 Month MRI
Post by: tdlight on March 03, 2016, 11:29:55 am

Congratulations, Mark. That all sounds very positive!