Kerri's Page

About Me:

I'm a 29 year old recently married girl who chalked up all of my pain to getting older and wearing heels every day. I had been having pain in my right knee for at least a year and had fallen and hurt it several times. I had been seeing a Chiropractor for over a year who told me the pain was because of my sciatic nerve. Months later, I went to a family doctor and had x-rays taken, but he couldn't find anything. Four months after that I fell again and could barely walk for 2 weeks. After that, I was fed up and went to see a sports medicine doctor, who immediatly diagnosed me with a benign tumor and made me an appointment with an orthopedic oncologist the next day. I had a biopsy a week later and the removal surgery a week after that. I've been recovering at home for 3 months and I'm anxious to get back to normal!

How do GCTs affect you?

GCT patient

Location of primary tumor:

Top of Tibia

Date of diagnosis of primary tumor:

February 2, 2009

Treatment of primary tumor:

Biopsy to confirm Giant Cell Tumor, then tumor removal and treatment with high speed burr. Then the hole was filled with bone cement and 4 screws were inserted.

Facility treated at for primary tumor:

Campbell's Clinic, Memphis TN

Would you recommend this facility and it's Doctors to another GCT patient?

Yes

Recurrence? If so, where?

No

Tumor free?

Yes-hopefully!