Meningioma Care - Mayo Clinic in Minnesota

At Mayo Clinic, you’ll have a team of experts who specialize in meningiomas. A meningioma can be difficult to diagnose because the tumor is often slow growing. Symptoms may be subtle and mistaken for other health conditions or written off as normal signs of aging. Accurate diagnosis is critical for successful treatment and outcomes.

Your meningioma care team at Mayo Clinic will have the experience and knowledge to make an accurate diagnosis, provide you with the latest technologies and treatment innovations, and tailor a care plan for your specific needs.

Mayo Clinic's world-renowned meningioma teams include neuroradiologists, neuropathologists, neurosurgeons, medical and neuro-oncologists, radiation oncologists, neurologists, rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals.

What might take months to accomplish elsewhere can typically be done in a matter of days at Mayo Clinic. Your care is discussed among the team, test results are available quickly, appointments are scheduled in coordination, and the most highly specialized brain tumor experts in the world all work together for you.

At Mayo Clinic you’ll have access to state-of-the-art noninvasive imaging, such as high-resolution MRI, MR perfusion and MR spectroscopy that may help distinguish cancerous tumors from benign tumors without a biopsy.

Advanced technologies and techniques available at Mayo Clinic include:

Computer-assisted brain surgery
Intraoperative MRI
Minimally invasive endoscopic surgery
Brain stereotactic radiosurgery
7-Tesla MRI

7-Tesla MRI imaging uses a stronger magnetic field to produce more detailed images of the body's interior. Detailed brain scans help Mayo Clinic care teams diagnose and treat patients with brain tumors. This advanced imaging technology is key to ensuring patients receive an accurate diagnosis to guide treatment.

With state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities, Mayo Clinic experts are constantly seeking new medical knowledge and innovations for children and adults with meningioma. Our neurosurgeons have pioneered modern surgical techniques.

Mayo Clinic doctors have the expertise to be able to make accurate diagnoses and recommend appropriate treatments from the start.

You will have doctors with experience in providing a range of treatment options, which may include:

Surgery to remove the tumor
Radiation therapy options including proton beam at the Rochester and Phoenix locations (and coming to the Jacksonville location in 2026); intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT); and Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery
Clinical trials
Targeted therapy, immunotherapy, chemotherapy

Mayo Clinic offers a comprehensive neuro-oncology program to diagnose and treat people with tumors of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves that are outside of the brain and spinal cord (peripheral nerves).

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota ranks among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings.

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets strict standards for a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center, recognizing scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Brain Tumor Care

Mayo Clinic is a fantastic place to have multidisciplinary care for highly complex patients. The Brain Tumor Program here is flourished with people who really care about what they do. Collectively, we perform thousands and thousands of brain tumor procedures every year, and there just isn't really anywhere else in the country or to my knowledge around the world that could equal that degree of experience. Patients will even ask me is like, wow, this is a really rare disease. And I'll say, well, yes, it is rare, but we are a referral center and we see these unusual, uncommon diseases to us. And so as a team, it's not rare, so maybe one in a million out there, but it's certainly not one in a million here. One of the things that we do here is make sure that we can see people almost right away. We have a policy that we'll see anybody with a brain tumor within 48 hours if they want to be seen that quickly. Time is critical, for the management of patients with brain cancers. Our practices are such that, you know, we find it really easy to contact our neurosurgeons or radiation oncologists and get insights into the care of the patient immediately so that we can handle patient care at that moment. One of the things that we've been also thinking about is the time the patients spend here at the clinic and what's the financial toxicities to them and what does it mean to their life. So a lot of our approaches is also exploring shorter courses of radiation and targeted better with our new diagnostic technologies that we have. We also have one of the largest, if not the largest group of MRI magnets at three Tesla, which is kind of the higher standard clinical grade. We also had the first seven Tesla magnet, the strongest magnet approved for clinical use in brain imaging that was first developed and put into use clinically here at Mayo Clinic. And so that just gives us, an added degree of information, that we wouldn't have otherwise. Our nuclear medicine department here is spectacular and have led the way with a number of novel PET scans for metabolic imaging, which we have used at least experimentally, to guide surgery, to guide radiation treatments for brain tumors with excellent outcomes. We are always pushing the boundaries for new treatments. I tell patients we're better at treating brain tumors now than we were a year ago or five years ago, and we're gonna be better a year from now, or five years from now. So that depth of expertise really makes a difference. Mayo Clinic represents hope for many patients. We really do provide comprehensive, world-class care. It really is a great team. There are not many other places in the world that have the same degree of experiences as we have, and that matters for the outcomes for patients.

Meningioma Diagnosis & Treatment by Experts Focused on You

Experts in the rare and complex.

Accuracy with advanced technologies and tests.

Nationally recognized expertise.

Many insurance plans accepted.

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Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Brain Tumor Care