Updated results of a pilot study of low dose craniospinal irradiation plus chemotherapy for children under five with cerebellar primitive neuroectodermal tumors (medulloblastoma)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 899-904

  Goldwein, Joel W ^a,b   Radcliffe, Jerilynn ^b   Johnson, James ^b   Moshang, Thomas ^b   Packer, Roger J ^c   Sutton, Leslie N ^b   Rorke, Lucy B ^b   D'Angio, Giulio J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Craniospinal irradiation; Medulloblastoma; Neurocognitive sequelae; Neuropsychologic testing; Primitive neuroectodermal tumors; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; LOMUSTINE; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL IRRADIATION; SPINE TUMOR;

EID: 0029917882     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(95)02080-2     Document Type: Article

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