My surgeon made it very clear that surgery was very difficult with a patient who had been treated with drugs. Surgery offers a cure rate of between 60 and 90 percent. Drugs can do no more than control the illness. What would you expect a surgeon to say. There are many different types of acromegaly- depending a great deal on the size of the tumor.
Many neurosurgeons insist on prior treatment to shrink the tumor.
The three options are surgery, beam radiation and drugs. He is 49, quite large, and has just been officially diagnosed as having Acromegaly, the disease arising from an overproduction of hormones which causes continuous growth. The doctors here are uncertain how to go about treatment, never having had a case before. My friend, basically, would like all the information he can gather on this disease and we can not find much here in Spain. Acromegaly comes from the overproduction of human growth hormone by the pituitary.