Ependymoma, glioblastoma, and acute leukemia in a child

✍ Scribed by Goffman, Thomas E. ;Woo, Shiao Y. ;Manz, Herbert ;McCullough, David ;Sinks, Lucius F. ;Chun, Byngkyu K. ;Miller, Robert W.

• Book ID: 102521583
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 464 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/mpo.2950110212

✦ Synopsis

A 5-year-old boy developed an ependymoma; 3 years later, after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, he developed glioblastoma multiforme and acute myeloblastic leukemia. His maternal grandmother had died at a young age of colon cancer. Since ependymoma is not known to predispose to other cancers, the unusual sequence of malignant disease may have been due to combined therapy in a susceptible host.