(PRWEB) April 30, 2005
Last month, singer John Michael Montgomery was criticized for appearing drunk and singing the National Anthem off key at a motor speedway race in Atlanta. In response, he announced to the world via his web web site that he was suffering from an acoustic neuroma. Montgomery reported loss of hearing in his appropriate ear and trouble with his balance.
Now, Dr. Bradley Hennenfent, founder of the Acoustic Neuroma Foundation, is urging medical doctors and researchers to undertake a study that compares the effectiveness of radiation therapy versus surgery for treating patients with acoustic neuroma.
“Perhaps the most essential question for the acoustic neuroma patient with a small (much less than 2 cm) tumor is no matter whether to treat the tumor with Gamma Knife radiation therapy or surgery,” says Dr. Hennenfent on the Acoustic Neuroma Foundation website, http://www.AcousticNeuromaFoundation.Org. “Patients require to know which is the very best treatment with the certainty that only a randomized controlled trial can supply.”
An acoustic neuroma is a benign (non-cancerous) tumor found around the auditory (hearing) nerve in the head. Acoustic neuromas occur in 1 out of 100,000 folks and they are 1 of the most typical sorts of brain tumor.
Dr. Hennenfent said a comparative study is essential taking into consideration that the risks of surgery often far outweigh those of radiation. Post-surgery troubles might contain death, damage or paralysis of the facial nerve, partial or total loss of hearing, ringing in the ear, infection, and bleeding. Dry eye, resulting in scarring of the cornea, and loss of vision might happen. And, with surgery there is a lengthy recovery period. Dr. Hennenfent reports that surgery normally involves a period of weakness and unsteadiness caused initially by anesthesia and then by the surgical removal of the balance nerve, which is cut while removing the tumor. Radiation has relatively couple of post-treatment problems by comparison. In reality, several patients are able to return to work inside days.
Acoustic neuromas are frequently misdiagnosed. Some of the symptoms that can be caused by an acoustic neuroma consist of: hearing loss, ringing in the ear, discomfort or pressure in the ear, a feeling of something clogging the ear, headache, dizziness, trouble with balance, facial weakness, facial discomfort, eyelid twitching, facial numbness or tingling.
Besides working for the Acoustic Neuroma Foundation (http://www.AcousticNeuromaFoundation.org), Dr. Hennenfent is also a leading prostate wellness activist. He is the author of the new book, “Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery,” as nicely as “The Prostatitis Syndromes.” He began the internet site http://www.SurvivingProstateCancerWithoutSurgery.org, co-founded the Prostatitis Foundation (http://www.Prostatitis.org) and founded the Epididymitis Foundation (http://www.EpididymitisFoundation.org).
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