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Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Treatment Overview (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 08/26/2008
Health Professional Version
General Information

Note: Separate PDQ summaries on Childhood Brain Stem Glioma Treatment 1, Childhood Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors, Treatment 2, Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma Treatment 3, Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma/Malignant Glioma Treatment 4, Childhood Ependymoma Treatment 5, Childhood Medulloblastoma Treatment 6, Childhood Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors and Pineoblastoma Treatment 7 and Childhood Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma Treatment 8 are also available.

The National Cancer Institute provides the PDQ pediatric cancer information treatment summaries as a public service to increase the availability of evidence-based cancer information to health professionals, patients, and the public.

Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site 9.


Table of Links

1http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-brain-stem-glioma/HealthProf
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2http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childCNSembryonal/healthprofession
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3http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-cerebellar-astrocytoma/Healt
hProfessional
4http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-cerebral-astrocytoma/HealthP
rofessional
5http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessional
6http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childmedulloblastoma/HealthProfess
ional
7http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childSPNET/HealthProfessional
8http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-visual-pathway/HealthProfess
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9http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials