Aggressive Treatment Effective in Kids’ Brain Cancer
HealthDay – SATURDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — The best way to treat a rare form of childhood brain cancer called ependymoma is aggressive surgery followed by targeted radiotherapy, U.S. researchers say.
Ependymoma affects the central nervous system. Aggressive surgery has proven effective, but concerns about side effects have limited the use of radiation therapy.
In this study, Dr. Thomas Merchant, of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and colleagues used surgery and computer-guided radiotherapy to treat 153 patients, including some under the age of 3. During a median of 5.3 years of follow-up, tumor progression occurred in 36 patients, and 23 patients died.
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