Comedy Star Mary Tyler Moore

The veteran TV comedy star Mary Tyler Moore is set to pass surgery to remove a meningioma – the type of tumor, usually benign, which may arise in the meninges, the brain protective outer membrane.

“On the recommendation of his neurologist, who is monitoring this for years, and a neurosurgeon, Maria decided to start this fairly routine procedure,” an unnamed representative of the 74-year-old actress told People magazine Thursday.

Press Secretary Alla Plotkin told The Associated Press on Thursday that the transaction date has not yet been established.

Two neurosurgeons not involved in helping Moore agreed that it was probably not at great risk of meningioma.

“Meningitis is one of the most common brain tumors in adults. They are benign and in many cases completely resectable [removable by surgery],” said Dr. Arno H. Fried, a Department of Neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey “They grow slowly and occasionally looked at some time in order to determine if it should be removed. If the meningioma is large enough, causing symptoms and grows, it should be removed. This is a common operation for the neurosurgeon who sees cases of brain tumor as a significant part of their practice. ”

Another neurosurgeon said that doctors usually decide to act on the basis of the nature of the tumor and any symptoms.

“Sometimes [tumors] is removed before the patient becomes symptomatic, if we are concerned about the rate of growth,” said Dr Anders Cohen, chief of neurosurgery at Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. “The problem is based on the place where it grows. Depending on what part of the brain tumor pressing against will determine the symptoms, which can be as easy as headaches or seizures, or may affect the movement, vision or speech.”

He added that the results of Moore after the operation is likely to be good.

“The forecast for the removal of meningioma is usually very successful, and much depends on the patient before surgery, and the size and location of the tumor,” Cohen said. “The vast majority of patients do well and return to their former way of life.”

Moore is best known for her starring roles in two popular comedies, Television, Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960′s and 1970′s hit The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Moore was also nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1981 in Ordinary People. Type 1 diabetes for many years, she is chairman of the International Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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