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@peque

Hi, I am new in this "forum". I am a 42-year-old, mother of two teenagers. After suffering for many years from severe headaches, recently, I have been diagnosed with a benign meningioma in the brain, my concern is that my doctor has told me that there is nothing to do for the moment just monitoring every 1 to 2 years and be aware of symptoms or changes in my health. A benign meningioma can remain harmless or does a moment come where it reaches to its malignant stage?

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57895789 | @57895789 | Sep 12, 2017

I have the same question. And How often should you do an MRI to see if there are changes?

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EES1 | @ees1 | Sep 12, 2017

First neurosurgeon said 3 months.  Second said a year.  It's all a guess!

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Audrey Laine Seymour | @audreylaine | Sep 14, 2017

Hi @peque. I sent your question to the experts and Dr. Guerrero provided this response: "The vast majority of meningiomas are not cancerous, grade 1 tumors. However, a very small percentage of them undergo malignant transformation into grades 2 and 3." So that's good news! Most of them remain benign and never transform into something more.

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