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5. How many visits to your family doctor for your initial symptoms did it take before you were sent for brain imaging or to a specialist such as a neurosurgeon?________________________________________________
6. Did you see your neurosurgeon before or after your first MRI studies?
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7a. After having an CT( CAT scan), what were you told they found on your CT study?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After having an MRI scan what were you told that they found with the study?
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8. What did your neurosurgeon recommend as the initial step in determining what type of tumor you had?
A. CT guided biopsy- Bioposy done by a radiologist to insert a needle into the tumor and get a sample. This test would have been done in the CT scanner.
B. Stereotactic surgical biopsy- small incision,uses a small needle passed thru the skull to get a piece of tumor for analysis
C. Open surgical biopsy- large incision and hole in the skull, to get a small piece of tumor for analysis
D. Try to remove the Tumor or as much of it as possible- Attempt to remove as much of the tumor as possible and send part of it for analysis
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