This comprehensive, but practical, evidence-based review of patient care, covers the diagnosis, clinical management, after care and monitoring, and underlying biology of brain and spinal tumors in children.
Children with brain and spinal tumors account for 20-25% of childhood cancers, yet in stark contrast to other childhood malignancies where improvements have been dramatic there has been little recent progress in treatment.
During the last 10 years, however, there has been a dramatic increase in interest in the subject among paediatric oncologists in both Europe and the USA, with early indications that survival rates are starting to rise, and the primary medical literature has expanded accordingly.
The time is therefore right for the appearance of this comprehensive, but practical, evidence-based review of patient care, covering the diagnosis, clinical management, after care and monitoring, and underlying biology of brain and spinal tumors in children.
The book is international in approach and reflects the differences in management that have arisen around the world. The editors have drawn on their experience as members of the European Brain Tumor Committee, linked to the Societe Internationale Oncologie Paediatrique, and of their involvement in the development of collaborative multi-centre clinical trials within Europe.
