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Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Treatment Overview (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 10/14/2009
Health Professional Version
General Information

Note: Separate PDQ summaries on Childhood Astrocytomas Treatment 1, Childhood Central Nervous System Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor Treatment 2, Childhood Brain Stem Glioma Treatment 3, Childhood Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors Treatment 4, Childhood Ependymoma Treatment 5, and Childhood Craniopharyngioma Treatment 6 are also available.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) 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 7.


Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-astrocytomas/HealthProfe
ssional
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-CNS-ATRT/healthprofessio
nal
3http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-brain-stem-glioma/Health
Professional
4http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childCNSembryonal/healthprofes
sional
5http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessi
onal
6http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-cranio/healthprofessional
7http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials