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• n  a tumor arising in the meninges which surround the brain and spinal cord; usually slow growing and sometimes malignant

• Kathy Morris, a young voice student at the Manhattan School of Music, developed a meningioma, a benign tumor on the surface of her left temporal lobe; to remove it, her .
• Their baby was suffering from an extremely rare malignant meningioma, which has killed everyone who ever had it.
• The drug appears to stop the growth of a particularly hard-to-treat BRAIN TUMOR called malignant meningioma.

News & Articles

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• Promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumor
  Researchers say they have found a specific protein in nearly 100 percent of high-grade meningiomas — the most common form of brain tumor — suggesting a new target for therapies for a cancer that does not respond to current chemotherapy.
  Aug. 28, 2013 - Science Daily
• Johns Hopkins researchers find promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumor
  ( Johns Hopkins Medicine ) Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found a specific protein in nearly 100 percent of high-grade meningiomas -- the most common form of brain tumor -- suggesting a new target for therapies for a cancer that does not respond to current chemotherapy.
  Aug. 27, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Researchers Find Promising Therapeutic Target for Hard-To-Treat Brain Tumor
  Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found a specific protein in nearly 100 percent of high-grade meningiomas -- the most common form of brain tumor -- suggesting a new target for therapies for a cancer that does not respond to current chemotherapy.
  Aug. 27, 2013 - Newswise