Paediatric Neuro-oncology

Neuro-oncology: an overview.

The direct, indirect, and treatment-related effects of cancer on the nervous system have received variable attention by neurologists over the past century. The diseases encompassed in the neuro-oncology field and our understanding of them have increased rapidly during the past 30 years. In part, progress has been driven by technological achievements in neuroimaging, in particular, computed tomo...

Imaging in neuro-oncology

Imaging plays several key roles in managing brain tumors, including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response assessment. Ongoing challenges remain as new therapies emerge and there are urgent needs to find accurate and clinically feasible methods to noninvasively evaluate brain tumors before and after treatment. This review aims to provide an overview of several advanced imaging modalities ...

Hotspots in Neuro-Oncology

Anaesthesia and paediatric oncology

ee front matter & 2007 acc.2007.07.012 ing author. Tel.: +44 20 2 9756. ess: david.chisholm@rm Summary Children with cancer present unique challenges to all concerned with their management. The disease process and its treatment can have a profound impact on the patient’s physiological and psychological state. Anaesthetists are often involved in the diagnosis, treatment and emergency resuscitati...

Paediatric interventional oncology

As is often the case with developments in interventional radiology (IR), widespread adoption of the newer techniques of interventional oncology has taken longer in paediatric than in adult practice. The three main applications of IR techniques in children with cancer are biopsy, regional therapy and supportive care (including the treatment of complications), and these are considered separately.