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Management of Brain Tumours in Childhood

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Malignant Brain Tumours

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Cancer is one of the four big killers in childhood, lying third after accidents and congenital malformations (OPCS, 1986) and afflicting one child in every 650 (Draper et al., 1982). Brain tumours are second only to leukaemia in importance, accounting for 18.6% of all childhood cancers and 40%–50% of all solid tumours (Silverberg, 1980). The incidence is fairly consistent across populations at between two and five cases per 100 000 per year (Dohrmann and Farwell, 1976; Schoenberg et al., 1976). There is, however, a considerable variation in tumour type between different racial groups, with cerebellar astrocytomas and medulloblastomas being more common in Europe and North America, craniopharyngiomas in Japan and Africa, ependymomas in India, and pineal germinomas in Japan (Dohrmann and Farwell, 1976).

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  2. Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, G51 4TF, UK

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Punt, J. (1995). Management of Brain Tumours in Childhood. In: Thomas, D.G.T., Graham, D.I. (eds) Malignant Brain Tumours. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1877-0_7

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