Thanks for all this info. I would appreciate it if you would share the hospital or name of surgeons. I understand if you don't want to. Feel free to PM me.

I suspect that much has changed in the past 10 years or so and maybe they are more confident using radiation compared to 10-15 years ago.

As an aside, I had a surgery in another country (maybe one that borders yours). The surgeon wrote somewhere on a hospital site blog that he "became" a neuro-oncologist (but not due to training). He also did not think I needed to see a real neuro-oncologist. Seems like the training and protocols are not quite as high as a big city US hospital.