Postoperative Chemotherapy and Delayed Radiation in Children Less Than Three Years of Age with Malignant Brain Tumors

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 24, 1993, Pages 1725-1731

  Duffner, Patricia K ^a   Horowitz, Marc E ^b   Krischer, Jeffrey P ^c   Friedman, Henry S ^d   Burger, Peter C ^d   Cohen, Michael E ^a   Sanford, Robert A ^e   Mulhern, Raymond K ^e   James, Hector E ^g   Freeman, Carolyn R ^h   Seidel, F Glen ^f   Kun, Larry E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AGE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0027314975     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199306173282401     Document Type: Article

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