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1 cze 2021 · Introduction. The number of very old (≥ 80-year-old) yet independent intracranial meningioma (IM) patients is constantly increasing as populations age 1. However, tumor-related symptoms, such as...
19 sty 2024 · These tumors have a relatively favorable prognosis with ~92% of meningioma patients surviving >5 years after diagnosis. Yet, patients can report high disease burden and survivorship issues even years after treatment, affecting health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
9 mar 2012 · Meningiomas are the second most common primary brain tumors, with incidence rates of 3–4 cases per 100 000 males per year and 9–13 cases per 100 000 females per year. 1, 2 The incidence increases with age and reaches its peak in the sixth and seventh decades.
Meningioma is one of the most common intracranial tumors. It has the features of benign and slow growing. We focused on the meningioma in the elderly, retrospectively analyzed 528 valid meningioma patients, including 115 (21.8%) patients older than 65 years old.
30 gru 2020 · The incidence rate of intracranial meningiomas increases progressively with age and it is a common disease in the elderly population, both in men and in women. 1–4 The incidence in persons older than 70 years is 3.5 times higher than in younger people. 3 With constantly increasing life expectancy and increasing use of diagnostic neuroimaging ...
Initial results from Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study 0539, the first prospective phase 2 trial for patients with meningioma, demonstrated 3-year progression-free survival (PFS) of 58.8% after adjuvant RT in patients with high-risk disease, defined as WHO grade 3 meningioma after any resection, recurrent WHO grade 2 disease, or new ...
6 paź 2018 · Meningioma incidence is highest in black populations, females, and increasingly the elderly. Nonmalignant meningioma survival is lowest in black populations, males, and increasingly the elderly. Adjuvant radiation following surgical resection does not confer a survival advantage in the elderly.
