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Subject: Re: re: recent diagnosis and recent submission to this formu After siging off I thaught of several more questions concerning my neural tumor. Can a neural sheath tumor be sparked to grow in an already predisposed person with an injury to my left knee and hip as I stated in my previous email. If a hip injury is a cause of irratation to my L2-3 tumor, and my hip is repaired will I have an option to wait and see on the tumor growing or stabilizing. Again any help would be apppreciated. Richard M There are several questions so I will take them in order, not all can be answered with the information available however. The hip, back and leg pain COULD be due to the tumor compressing a sensory nerve. The tumor could not cause swelling of the knee although it could ,depending on the level of the lesion cause referred pain there. If there is swelling of the knee then it is more likely to be due to a problem in the knee itself. I cannot say if you did soft tissue damage to the hip at the time of the accident , anythig I said would be pure speculation. I doubt if MRI of the hip or knee would contribute anything to the picture since the problem is clearly localized to the spine area. A hip or knee injury could not spark off the growth of a tumor in the spine even in a person who is predisposed, I doubt if irritation from the hip plays any part whatsoever in the progression of the spine tumor which probably predated your recent injuries by years. Tumors do not respond to irritation in remote sites as you describe, they tend to folow their own predetermined course, fortunately a benign one in your case. |
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