An intensive multiagent chemotherapy regimen for brain tumours occurring in very young children.
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An intensive multiagent chemotherapy regimen for brain tumours occurring in very young children.
Standard treatment for the majority of malignant brain tumours consists of surgery and radiotherapy. This treatment has late morbidity which is accentuated in the very young child. As part of a strategy to improve quality of life and overall survival of young children with brain tumours, members of the United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group (UKCCSG) have piloted an intensive chemotherapy ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.74.3.219