Two patients progressed after IMRT, one locally and one distantly. Each was treated with IMRT after multiple recurrences of benign meningioma over many years. Both were found to have malignant meningioma at the time of relapse after IMRT, and it is likely their tumors had already undergone ...
Chemotherapy makes use of drugs to fight against tumor cells, but it is rarely used in treating meningiomas. Nevertheless, it is generally recommended for patients with recurrent or progressive meningiomas when surgery or radiation therapy is no longer effective. Bevacizumab is one type of chemotherapy...
More than 90% of adults between the ages of 20 and 44 survive for five years or longer after being diagnosed with meningioma. This encouraging survival rate includes many patients who have gone on to live several decades after their diagnosis. Meningiomas are the most common kind of brain tumo...
OBJECTIVE: To present early clinical results of stereotactic conformal radiotherapy (SCRT) in patients with benign predominantly skull base meningiomas. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between August 1994 and August 1999, 41 patients with benign residual or recurrent meningiomas were treated with SCRT. Thirty-...
Aims To assess tumour control, visual outcomes and toxicity after radiotherapy for all patients with optic nerve sheath meningiomas (ONSM) treated by a single radiation oncologist at a single institution over a 15 year period. To explore potential predictors of outcomes. Materials and methods All ...