I WAS sorry to read Alison Branley’s article on the Galli family, of Hamilton South (‘‘Electrical cancer concerns’’, Herald, 28/1).
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I would like to offer some information regarding meningiomas, the brain tumour affecting Julie Galli’s dog. I do this only because, as co-ordinator of the Hunter Brain Tumour Network, I would not like people already living with a meningioma to experience additional stress.
Meningiomas are generally benign tumours. They grow on the dura, the covering of the brain. They are typically slow-growing, often have very few symptoms and generally occur in people in later life. There is a suggestion that they are more common in older women than men, though both sexes can experience them.
The Hunter Brain Tumour Network meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 11am at South Newcastle Leagues Club in Merewether. Phone 0413275853.
Kaye Duffy, Newcastle