"Interferon-(alpha) Treatment of Inoperable Meningiomas - Evaluation with PET."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held April 20-24, 1996, in Washington, D.C., "19 patients with recurrent, often malignant, multiple or primarily inoperable intracranial meningiomas were treated with Interferon-(alpha) (INF-(alpha)). Sixteen of the 19 patients had been operated on before start of INF-(alpha) treatment. All of the patients were followed with positron emission tomography (PET) with ¹¹C-L-methionine and MRI or CT before and during treatment. Twelve of the 19 patients demonstrated with PET a decrease between 20 and 70% in the uptake of ¹¹C-L-methionine in the...

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