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Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Oncology pp 215–220Cite as

Brain Stem Gliomas in Children

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Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors and second most common malignancies in children after the leukemias. Approximately 1100–1200 new cases of brain and central nervous system tumors are seen yearly in children under the age of 14 in the United States. Brain stem tumors account for 10%–20% of all brain tumors in children (Abramson et al. 1974; Littman et al. 1980; Bloom et al. 1990). For the purposes of this chapter, brain stem will be defined as the medulla oblangata and the pons and will exclude the thalamus and midbrain. No sex or racial predominance is noted in brain stem gliomas. The mean age at diagnosis varies from 6.5 to 8.9 years (Halperin 1985; Freeman and Suissa 1986; Eifel et al. 1987; Freeman et al. 1987; Stroink et al. 1987; Halperin et al. 1989b; Shrieve et al. 1992).

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, Long Hospital, Room L-75, Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0226, USA

    Patrick S. Swift M.D. (Assistant Professor)

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, The University Arizona, Health Science Center, 1501 North Campbell Ave., 85724, Tucson, AZ, USA

    J. Robert Cassady M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Swift, P.S. (1994). Brain Stem Gliomas in Children. In: Cassady, J.R. (eds) Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Oncology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84520-8_14

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