Genetic medicine experts have identified a new gene responsible for causing an inherited form of tumor, known as spinal meningioma. Meningiomas are the commonest form of tumor affecting the brain and ...

Approximately 90% of meningiomas develop from the cranial meninges, although 10% occur in the spinal meninges. The clinical presenting symptoms reflect the anatomic region that is involved and ...

Meningiomas are the most common primary tumors of the central nervous system. They are treated with surgery and radiation, but drug therapy is usually not effective against these tumors of the brain ...

Brain and spinal cord cancers can grow in the central nervous system, which is known as a primary cancer. They can also travel from other parts of the body, like the lung or breast, and form deposits ...

Meningiomas, tumors that arise from the thin coverings of the brain and spinal cord called the meninges, are the most common primary brain tumors — with about 27,000 new cases each year — according to ...

Spinal tumors can begin in and around the spine or spread from another location. There are many types of spinal tumors, which can be cancerous or noncancerous. Spinal tumors develop when cells in or ...

Your spinal cord is the tube that runs from the base of your brain to the bottom of your spine. It houses the nerves that send messages back and forth between your brain and body. Tumors can grow ...

Veteran actress Mary Tyler Moore will be undergoing surgery to remove a benign brain tumor called a meningioma. Moore's reprepsentative told People magazine: "At the recommendation of her neurologist, ...

Carcinomatous meningitis is a complication of late stage cancer. It develops when cancer cells spread to your meninges from other parts of your body. Your meninges are three layers of thin tissue that ...