Survival and neurologic outcome of infants with medulloblastoma treated with surgery and MOPP chemotherapy. A preliminary report

✍ Scribed by Tallie Z. Baram; Jan Van Eys; Richard E. Dowell; Ayten Cangir; Becky Pack; Janet M. Bruner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 454 KB
• Volume: 60
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19870715)60:2<173::aid-cncr2820600209>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

The results of treatment of infants with medulloblastoma using surgery and chemotherapy, without the use of radiation therapy, are reported. Both survival and outcome, in terms of growth, neurologic deficit, and intelligence are compared with the same parameters in children treated conventionally. Although preliminary, our results suggest that chemotherapy combined with surgery is a valid option for the treatment of infants with this type of neoplasm.