Will high dose chemotherapy followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation supplant cranio-spinal irradiation in young children treated for medulloblastoma?

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-98

  Dupuis Girod, S ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

BMT; Bosulfan; Children; Medulloblastoma; Thiotepa

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; THIOTEPA;

ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MORTALITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030054134     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00146088     Document Type: Article

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