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Formyfriend

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

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Re: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
« Reply #1 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.

3/15/18 12mm x 6mm x5mm
9/21/16 12mm x 7mm x 5mm
3/23/15 12mm x 5.5mm x 4mm
3/13/14 12mm x 6mm x 4mm
8/1/13 14mm x 5mm x 4mm (Expected)
1/22/13 12mm x 3mm (Gamma Knife)
10/10/12 11mm x 4mm x 5mm
4/4/12 9mm x 4mm x 3mm (Diagnosis)

My story at: http://www.anausa.org/smf/index.php?topic=18287.0

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Re: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2016, 05:10:19 am »

Plus, I keep reading about younger-and-younger people opting for radiation. Even teenagers.
5/19/2015 - 40% sudden hearing loss + tinnitus right ear

6/26/2015 - AN diagnosed by MRI - 14mm x 7mm + 3mm extension

8/26/2015 - WIDEX "ZEN" hearing aid for my catastrophic tinnitus

12/15/2015: 18mm x 9mm + 9mm extension (5mm AGGRESSIVE GROWTH in 5 months)

3/03/2016:   Gamma Knife - Dr. Sheehan

Formyfriend

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Re: What are worst case scenarious for GK? Foes any statictic exist ?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2016, 10:24:59 pm »
Thank you Arizonajack and Mcrew.

All the best,
Elena