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The diagnosis and treatment of childhood central nervous system tumors raises profound ethical and theological questions including the problem of evil, the physician’s religious license to heal, and the “slippery slope” problem of informed consent. This chapter explores these three questions.

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Some of the material in this chapter has been previously published by the author, in a different form, in “The Problem of Evil and Childhood Cancer” and “Common Responses to the Problem of Evil” in Halperin EC, Chapter 1, “The Cancer Problem in Children”, in Constine LS, Tarbell NJ, Halperin EC (editors). Pediatric Radiation Oncology, Sixth Edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2016, and is used in this chapter with the gracious permission of WoltersKluwer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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  1. New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

    Edward C. Halperin M.D., M.A.

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  1. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

    Anita Mahajan

  2. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    Arnold Paulino

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Halperin, E.C. (2018). Afterword. In: Mahajan, A., Paulino, A. (eds) Radiation Oncology for Pediatric CNS Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55430-3_36

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