Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy and Investigational Therapy

作者: Joann L. Ater , Jeffrey S. Weinberg , Moshe H. Maor , Demetrios Petropoulos

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-24472-3_4

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摘要: This chapter covers the methods used in staging and treating most common-types of childhood brain tumors, with emphasis on chemotherapy-radiotherapy programs clinical trials Division Pediatrics at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. For tumor types such as medulloblastoma, which choice chemotherapy radiotherapy is interactive or concurrent, radiation dose timing are also discussed. The use regimens to reduce delay irradiation young children addressed.

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