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- Carefully monitor the lesion if it is in a precarious location. If no symptoms are present or a minimal, the neurosurgeon may suggest a “wait and see” approach.
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Brain Surgery
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- Brain surgery, with its risks and potential for crippling disabilities and deficits, is a treatment option. Many CCMs can be removed with surgery. However, brain surgery is extremely risky, and can leave a person with a wide range of devastating effects, which include:
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Strokes
Sudden blindness
Sudden deafness
Speech impairment
Memory loss
Inability to swallow
Paralysis ranging from slight weakness to complete loss of motor control
Death
Patients who opt for surgery may live, but to what degree do the risks outweigh the benefits?
Surgery is not the cure. It is simply an option.
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Radiation Therapy
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- There is no evidence that radiation therapy does anything for CCM and could, quite frankly, cause more harm than good.
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