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Many of the diseases we screen for are easy to treat once we have diagnosed them. Hypothyroidism in dogs and hyperthyroidism in cats would be easy examples. Meningiomas in elderly cats, on the other hand, are very common but not only does diagnosis require a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), most meningiomas do not cause any clinical signs and would not need treatment. Even if a less expensive test were available, such as a meningioma chemical marker in serum, it might never become part of our standard senior screening, since it is unlikely it would change how we care for the cat.