In a new video, Simone Giertz addresses her brain tumor's return

In a video uploaded to YouTube on Friday, Shitty Robots creator Simone Giertz elaborated on what she disclosed on Twitter last week: that her non-cancerous brain tumor, for which she had brain surgery last year, has grown enough that she now plans to undergo radiation treatment.

Giertz explained that her doctors decided to leave a piece of the tumor behind in a section of the brain where performing surgery was particularly risky. That's the piece that, over the past eight months, has grown.

"We knew that there was a risk it would grow down the line, which it has," she said. "It's just that the 'line' in 'down the line' was a little bit shorter than I had anticipated, because it's only been eight months [since the procedure]." Read more...

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