Brain Tumor Care > Meningioma

As a patient, you'll have access to advanced and highly individualized medical, surgical, and minimally invasive options, as well as promising new therapies for treating complex adult brain tumors. We discuss meningioma cases with your hospital's multidisciplinary tumor board, a team of specialists that shares opinions and then synthesizes them into a recommended treatment strategy for you. Treatment options include skull base surgery, minimally invasive keyhole and endoscopic surgery, radiotherapy, and careful observation. Mayfield treats about 400 patients each year with meningioma brain tumors.

About meningiomas

A meningioma is a tumor that grows from the protective membranes, called meninges, which surround the brain and spinal cord. Most meningiomas are benign (not cancer) and slow growing; however, some can be malignant. Symptoms typically appear gradually and vary depending on the tumor location. Because of their slow growth, not all meningiomas need to be treated immediately.

Meningioma treatments:

ABOUT MENINGIOMA

SURGERY CRANIOTOMY

RADIOSURGERY

In the past 5 years, Mayfield has seen 2,971 patients with meningiomas and performed 542 procedures — making Mayfield a high-volume treatment program.1 In context, nearly a quarter of people newly diagnosed with a meningioma in Ohio2 seek care at Mayfield, many of which are observed.

Meningioma outcomes

Symptom resolution (seizure, headache, cranial nerve function) are the main goals of surgery and are highly dependent on tumor location (convexity vs. skull base). Consistent with the literature3,4, Mayfield's patients have 91% resolution of their symptoms and 93% have improved or full activity level.

  1. JNS 132(2):491-502, 2020
  2. Brain and Other Central Nervous System Tumors in Ohio 2023.
  3. World Neurosurg 111:e149-e159, 2018
  4. Cancers 15(19):4680, 2023

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