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Re-irradiation of Pediatric Medulloblastoma: A Case Report and Systematic Review

Despite the optimal treatment given to children with medulloblastoma, many relapses are seen after combining treatments. Re-irradiation is part of salvage therapy for children who relapse and might provide long-term disease control. Nevertheless, it is challenging because there is a concern about ex...

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Autores principales: Giakoumettis, Georgios, Mantzavinou, Artemis, Moschos, Georgios, Giakoumettis, Dimitrios, Capizzello, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9757891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540431
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31585
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author Giakoumettis, Georgios
Mantzavinou, Artemis
Moschos, Georgios
Giakoumettis, Dimitrios
Capizzello, Antonio
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description Despite the optimal treatment given to children with medulloblastoma, many relapses are seen after combining treatments. Re-irradiation is part of salvage therapy for children who relapse and might provide long-term disease control. Nevertheless, it is challenging because there is a concern about exceeding radiation tolerances and late treatment toxicities. Re-irradiation is an option for many brain tumors, including medulloblastoma in children. This study presents a case of recurrent medulloblastoma treated with re-irradiation. A systematic review of the literature provided up-to-date data on the re-irradiation of medulloblastoma in children. This study aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the treatment strategy, which may help improve patients' outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-97578912022-12-19 Re-irradiation of Pediatric Medulloblastoma: A Case Report and Systematic Review Giakoumettis, Georgios Mantzavinou, Artemis Moschos, Georgios Giakoumettis, Dimitrios Capizzello, Antonio Cureus Pediatrics Despite the optimal treatment given to children with medulloblastoma, many relapses are seen after combining treatments. Re-irradiation is part of salvage therapy for children who relapse and might provide long-term disease control. Nevertheless, it is challenging because there is a concern about exceeding radiation tolerances and late treatment toxicities. Re-irradiation is an option for many brain tumors, including medulloblastoma in children. This study presents a case of recurrent medulloblastoma treated with re-irradiation. A systematic review of the literature provided up-to-date data on the re-irradiation of medulloblastoma in children. This study aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the treatment strategy, which may help improve patients' outcomes. Cureus 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9757891/ /pubmed/36540431 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31585 Text en Copyright © 2022, Giakoumettis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Re-irradiation of Pediatric Medulloblastoma: A Case Report and Systematic Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9757891/
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