Is there any evidence that radiotherapy can worsen balance, dizziness, or vertigo in patients treated for vestibular schwannoma due to transient edema?
If so, what percent likelihood do you quote patients for this risk with SRS, SRT and fully fractionated therapy?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
While the answer from Dr. @Minesh P. Mehta addresses a much broader category of patients treated with SRS, we have looked specifically at post radiation side effects after treatment of vestibular schwannomas treated with either SRS (12.5 Gy), hypofractionated SRS (hSRT with 5 fractions of 5 Gy), or ...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Post-SRS Acute Symptomatic Worsening in Vestibular Schwannoma Minesh Mehta, @Martin Tom, @Rupesh Kotecha, and Michael Mcdermott Acute symptomatic worsening after SRS or FSRT for vestibular schwannoma is uncommon and hence, there are no great databases to answer this question with precision...