The long-term effects of cranial irradia
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Patricia K. Duffner; Michael E. Cohen; Patrick R. M. Thomas; Shirley B. Lansky
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Article
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1985
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Cranial irradiation and chemotherapy may have significant long-term deleterious effects on children with brain tumors. Intellectual deterioration, endocrinopathies, leukoencephalopathy, extraneural metastases, and oncogenesis may all complicate the treatment of central nervous system neoplasia. Thes