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Radiation Oncology • Neuro-Oncology
What is your recommended follow-up schedule for a meningioma after definitive radiotherapy?
How often do you obtain routine imaging if there has been no documented growth after 5 years?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
For grade 1 meningioma, I obtain annual follow up MRI for the first 5 years, and then at 18-month intervals from 5-10 years. After that I offer patients to have an MRI every other year and some of them will do it.
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
My personal approach varies from this recommendation only modestly. For patients with a newly diagnosed WHO grade I meningioma I order follow-up MRIs in a fashion very similar to this but do not stop at 10 years. There are only a few studies with follow-up for a sizeable cohort beyond a decade, but ...