What effects do puberty, pregnancy and menopause have on NF2 tumours?
One of the tumor types associated with NF2 (the meningiomas) is known to frequently be responsive to female hormones in its non-genetic form. There are also individual reports of acceleration of tumor growth in women with NF2 during exposures to female hormones. However, in the largest study to date of women with NF2, no significant changes were seen in the patients of their tumors during 100 individual pregnancies.
