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Webinar: Adult Brain Tumors: From Diagnosis to Recovery

Thu, Aug 13, 2015
12:00pm to 1:00pm ET

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In this  webinar, Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Ian Parney, M.D., PhD, and neurologist Alyx Porter, M.D., discuss the diagnosis, management, treatment and recovery associated with adult brain tumors. Topics include: management and treatment options, such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and clinical trials, as well as recovery and quality of life.  A question and answer session followed the presentation.

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Alex Simon | @alexsimon | Aug 14, 2015
In reply to @joturner3 "I had just asked a question re.: my husband having a possible ependymoma in the ventricle...." + (show)
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I had just asked a question re.: my husband having a possible ependymoma in the ventricle. Thankyou for your answer. Since it has been there 26 years and has only grown a little, why do anything with it especially since he is 68 yrs. old now. He has had a lot of falls over the years from seizures and poor balance. He has aphasia and some confusion and some dementia. He also has hemosiderin in the brain and encephalomacia. He seems a little worse since his brain biopsy in Jan. 2015. Why put him through anything now?

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Getting a second opinion from a major academic medical center like Mayo, can never hurt, since there was conflict regarding the pathology and the treating physician’s thoughts. If it is determined that your husband is asymptomatic for his disease, there is no need to intervene. If however, the disease were to progress or he should develop symptoms, intervention would be imperative.

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Jo Turner | @joturner3 | Aug 14, 2015
In reply to @joturner3 "I had just asked a question re.: my husband having a possible ependymoma in the ventricle...." + (show)
@joturner3

I had just asked a question re.: my husband having a possible ependymoma in the ventricle. Thankyou for your answer. Since it has been there 26 years and has only grown a little, why do anything with it especially since he is 68 yrs. old now. He has had a lot of falls over the years from seizures and poor balance. He has aphasia and some confusion and some dementia. He also has hemosiderin in the brain and encephalomacia. He seems a little worse since his brain biopsy in Jan. 2015. Why put him through anything now?

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Thanks very much!<br />

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