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Childhood Cancer

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Childhood cancers, though relatively rare, are found in children at all ages. The two most common forms of childhood cancer are childhood leukemia and brain tumors. Although the etiologies for these disorders differ, treatment frequently involves chemotherapy and cranial irradiation. The chemotherapy regimen has not been found to have the same effects on later outcome that irradiation produces. It is these “late effects” that most concern the child neuropsychologist. Many more children are surviving given the improvement in treatment over the past few decades. Survival for brain tumors is approximately 70 percent (Brenner, 2003) and above 70 percent for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (Gatta, Capocaccia, Coleman, Ries, & Berrino, 2002).

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