Advances in multimodality therapy have led to childhood cancer cure rates over 80%.
However, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy may lead to debilitating or even fatal …

Medulloblastoma is the most common brain malignancy in children and tremendous
advances have recently been made in understanding the pathogenesis of this tumor. The …

Acclaimed by the worldwide medical community as" a staple reference text in the medical
oncologist's library"(JAMA), DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and …

Abstract Background and Purpose To enable accurate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-
based dose calculations, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) images need to be …

Purpose: To calculate treatment plans and compare the dose distributions and dose–volume
histograms (DVHs) for photon three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) …

The successful treatment of pediatric malignancy by multimodality therapy has improved the
outcome for children with cancer. It has been estimated that 0.1% of individuals 20 years of …

PURPOSE: Image-guided radiation therapy has emerged as the new paradigm in
radiotherapy. This work is to provide detailed information concerning the additional imaging …

Background: Over 85% of pediatric orbital rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) are cured with
combined chemotherapy and radiation. However, the late effects of photon radiation …

The most prevalent forms of bone cancer are osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and Ewing's
sarcoma. Although chemotherapy and radiotherapy have replaced traditional surgical …

Opinion statement Postoperative radiation therapy (RT), either alone or in combination with
chemotherapy, is the mainstay of treatment for primary and/or metastatic brain tumors. The …