Yeah, full disclosure, I'm biased against surgery and had radiation. Having said that, I would be even more inclined than ever to avoid surgery having read of so many complications here. At the end of the day, I think the deciding factor is to never have to treat it again. When I started out, that was my main concern about radiation--easy outpatient, little side effects, and the cancer risk is really extremely low, but the failure rate is 5-15%. But there seem to be so many posts about doctors leaving some tumor behind, which to me, takes the recurrence rate as an advantage off the table because surgery can fail to stabilize the tumor as well because they may not get it all. For me, I had facial nerve involvement so surgery wasn't much of an option, and major surgery scares the crap out of me anyway. Besides that, most of the outcomes are pretty similar, success rates, etc.