Sentences with phrase «with meningiomas»

For example, SRT can be used for pituitary tumors and trigeminal nerve sheath tumors in dogs, but IMRT is the preferred treatment for most dogs with these tumors, whereas SRT is the preferred treatment for most dogs with meningiomas.

The prognosis for cats with meningiomas is quite good.

In general, dogs with meningiomas have a median survival time of 1 - 2 years.

Researchers analyzed records of 35 patients who were diagnosed with meningiomas before age 30.

Twenty years later, he was diagnosed with a meningioma.

At age 29 I was diagnosed with a meningioma after the birth of my daughter.

We are no longer recruiting dogs for a clinical trial, but we are offering to treat dogs diagnosed with meningioma with surgery and vaccine - based immunotherapy.

In one study of dogs with meningioma, the tumor's blood volume decreased by 21 % within 24 hours of beginning prednisone.

In dogs with meningioma, and in both dogs and cats with other brain tumors, brain surgery can

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The cerebral convexity is the most frequent location for adults with intracranial meningiomas.

Meningiomas with a lack of dural attachment are more frequent in children [5].

«We now need to find out what other genes FOXM1 is activating to drive meningioma growth, and block those targets with clinical therapies,» Raleigh said.

Most meningiomas are treatable with radiation therapy or surgery.

And in June of that year, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor — a meningioma the size of a lemon, which upon surgery was found to be benign.

There is disagreement among neurologists and radiation oncologists as to whether canine meningiomas should be treated with surgery plus radiation therapy, or with radiation therapy lone.

Glial cell tumors and pituitary tumors are most common in brachycephalic (dogs with short, broad heads) breeds, while meningiomas are most frequently seen in dolicocephalic (dogs with long narrow skull) breeds.

In one study dogs treated with surgery for olfactory meningiomas, showed a median survival of 138 days.

More than 50 % of cats treated with surgery for cerebral meningioma survive past 24 months.

As such, meningiomas are not strictly brain tumors, but tend to be grouped with them because they arise within the cranial cavity and compress or invade the brain.

Better survivals may be obtained when treating meningiomas with surgery followed by radiation.