What are your target volumes and dose for recurrent atypical meningiomas that have been initially treated with definitive surgery alone?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Neuro-Oncology • Non-malignant Disease

Would you treat just the gross tumor at recurrence or the entire initial operative bed? Do your volumes and dose differ from those treated adjuvantly after initial surgery?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

These questions get to the bottom of several important issues facing patients with WHO grade II meningioma and physicians treating them. Permit me to approach these inquiries as if writing a Scientific American article, answers first, then some abbreviated supporting documentation. Regarding treatme...

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Radiation Oncologist at Vasek Polak Radiation Oncology
Thanks - that is very helpful. What is your appro...

Radiation Oncologist at GammaWest Cancer Services
For patients with a WHO grade II meningioma that i...

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