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Clinical Trials in Pediatric Brain Tumors; Radiotherapy

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Pediatric Cancer, Volume 2

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Irradiation is an essential part of the management of most pediatric brain tumors. A good treatment strategy should consider not only survival but also the quality of life.

The modern radiotherapy techniques as conformal and stereotactic radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiotherapy and recently new radiation modalities as protons, or light ions allow obtaining a good dose distribution. Numerous clinical trials with radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumors as medulloblastoma, ependymoma, astrocytoma and germ-cell tumors were undertaken in recent years. This chapter summarizes the results achieved in some of them, published in the last 5 years.

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre, Warsaw, Poland

    Anna Skowronska-Gardas, Marzanna Chojnacka & Katarzyna Pedziwiatr

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Skowronska-Gardas, A., Chojnacka, M., Pedziwiatr, K. (2012). Clinical Trials in Pediatric Brain Tumors; Radiotherapy. In: Hayat, M. (eds) Pediatric Cancer, Volume 2. Pediatric Cancer, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2957-5_18

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