Survival of very young children with medulloblastoma (primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the posterior fossa) treated with craniospinal irradiation

Purpose: Very young children with medulloblastoma are considered to have a worse prognosis than older children. As radiotherapy remains an important part of the treatment, the adverse prognosis could be due to inadequate radiation treatment rather than biological factors. We analyzed the published l...

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Veröffentlicht in:	International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics biology, physics, 1998-12, Vol.42 (5), p.959-967
Hauptverfasser:	Saran, Frank H, Driever, Pablo Hernìz, Thilmann, Christoph, Mose, Stephan, Wilson, Paula, Sharpe, Geoff, Adamietz, Irenäus A, Böttcher, Heinz D
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age at presentation Age Factors Biological and medical sciences Brain Neoplasms - mortality Brain Neoplasms - pathology Brain Neoplasms - radiotherapy Child, Preschool Cranial Fossa, Posterior Diseases of the nervous system Humans Infant Medical sciences Medulloblastoma Medulloblastoma - mortality Medulloblastoma - pathology Medulloblastoma - radiotherapy Neoplasm Staging Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive - mortality Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive - pathology Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive - radiotherapy Neurology Prognosis Prognostic factors Radiotherapy Radiotherapy. Instrumental treatment. Physiotherapy. Reeducation. Rehabilitation, orthophony, crenotherapy. Diet therapy and various other treatments (general aspects) Survival Analysis Tumors of the nervous system. Phacomatoses
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