| Literature DB >> 25418957 |
Jeannette Parkes1, Marc Hendricks, Peter Ssenyonga, John Mugamba, Elizabeth Molyneux, Antoinette Schouten-van Meeteren, Ibrahim Qaddoumi, Graham Fieggen, Sandra Luna-Fineman, Scott Howard, Dipayan Mitra, Eric Bouffet, Alan Davidson, Simon Bailey.
Abstract
Effective treatment of children with medulloblastoma requires a functioning multi-disciplinary team with adequate neurosurgical, neuroradiological, pathological, radiotherapy and chemotherapy facilities and personnel. In addition the treating centre should have the capacity to effectively screen and manage any tumour and treatment-associated complications. These requirements have made it difficult for many low and middle-income countries (LMIC) centres to offer curative treatment. This article provides management recommendations for children with standard-risk medulloblastoma (localised tumours in children over the age of 3-5 years) according to the level of facilities available.Entities:
Keywords: brain; chemotherapy; pediatric hematology/oncology; tumours
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25418957 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25313
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pediatr Blood Cancer ISSN: 1545-5009 Impact factor: 3.167