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

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?
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Radiation Oncology · GammaWest Cancer Services
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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 Oncology · Radiotherapy Cancer Center (RTCC)
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Good day everyone. These answers have been very helpful.

Quick question @Dr. First Last. With the current data available, for grade 2 meningioma with multiple satellite nodules along a large scar and close to the optic apparatus, would you consider treating the entire tumor bed and GTVs to 54 Gy, fo...

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