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Radiation Therapy

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Cancer in Children

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Radiation therapy depends for its success in curing patients upon certain relationships between the sensitivity of tumours and normal tissues to radiation. For successful treatment a tumour must be killed by a lower dose of radiation than would be needed to destroy the surrounding normal tissues. This is true whether we are dealing with children or adults. This relationship between tumour and normal tissues is known as the “Therapeutic Ratio” and should always be less than one if tumour lethal dose is put over the normal tissue tolerance dose [39]. Certain normal organs are more sensitive to radiation than others and care must be taken to recognize these differences so as not to exceed the doses leading to irreparable damage.

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London and Surrey, UK

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  2. Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey, UK

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  3. St.Peter’s Group of Urological Hospitals, London, UK

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  4. St. George’s Hospital, London, England

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  5. Department of Paediatrics, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

    Jean Lemerle

  6. First Paediatric Hospital, Augsburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    Malte K. Neidhardt (Chief) (Chief)

  7. Department of Paediatric Oncology, Emmakinderziekenhuis and Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Paul A. Voûte

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Pearson, D., D’Angio, G.J. (1975). Radiation Therapy. In: Bloom, H.J.G., Lemerle, J., Neidhardt, M.K., Voûte, P.A. (eds) Cancer in Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96258-5_4

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