Outcome of infants and young children with newly diagnosed ependymoma treated on the "head Start" III prospective clinical trial

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 285-291

  Venkatramani, Rajkumar ^a   Ji, Lingyun ^b   Lasky, Joseph ^c   Haley, Kelley ^a   Judkins, Alexander ^a   Zhou, Shengmei ^a   Sposto, Richard ^a   Olshefski, Randal ^d   Garvin, James ^e   Tekautz, Tanya ^f   Kennedy, Gloria ^g   Rassekh, Shahrad Rod ^h   Moore, Theodore ⁱ   Gardner, Sharon ^j   Allen, Jeffrey ^j   Shore, Richard ^k   Moertel, Christopher ^l   Atlas, Mark ^m   Dhall, Girish ^a   Finlay, Jonathan ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k Children's Mercy Hospital   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^m Schneider Childrens Hospital   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ependymoma; Infratentorial; Irradiation; Supratentorial; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; FOLINIC ACID; MESNA; METHOTREXATE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TEMOZOLOMIDE; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY; EPENDYMOMA; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INFANT; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPENDYMOMA; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 84879109838     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-013-1111-9     Document Type: Article

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