Trilogy

[Betsy]

It's been a long day (saw a neurosurgeon AND radiologist back to back), so I'll keep this short.  Geisinger in Danville PA offers Trilogy as well as GK.  The radiologist even felt there was a better chance of retaining my hearing level with Trilogy, but he did say it was too early to know for sure.  I still haven't made my decision, but I'm leaning more towards "wait and watch" than I was before today.  Right now I'm actually feeling grateful that it's "only" an acoustic neuroma and not something worse.   There's nothing like a visit to the hospital to help put things into perspective.

[Mark]

As Phyl suggested early in this thread the docs on the CPSG board who have experience with all the machines currently out there do have some opinions which might be of value to those looking to choose amongst various options

http://www.cyberknifesupport.org/forum/default.aspx?f=16&m=11064

http://www.cyberknifesupport.org/forum/default.aspx?f=16&m=11510

All of these are viable options, but there are differences in capabilities that can be important to consider

Mark

[Betsy]

Thanks for the links, Mark.  I'd like to add another (forgive me if it's been posted elsewhere).

http://www.sdcyberknife.com/comparison.htm

I'm still in the early stages of my research, but the one big thing I've learned from this forum is that much of the info on the internet is biased.   The marketing people folks have probably revised the heck out of this comparison, but I still found it interesting.

Does all this image-guided radiosurgery stuff remind anyone else of Star Trek?