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Re-irradiation

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What is your approach when it comes to reirradiation for DIPG patients who have already received 54Gy upfront?

For a recurrent medulloblastoma in the posterior fossa several years after initial standard risk therapy (23.4 Gy CSI), and in which the patient is still less than 18, how would you approach re-irradiation?

Assuming CSF is negative for neoplastic cells would you: Re-irradiate gross disease only? Re-irradiate posterior fossa only? Re-irradiate the entir...

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Journal of neuro-oncology, 2012-01

Treatment of recurrent diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: the MD Anderson Cancer Center experience.

American journal of clinical oncology, 2012-02

Palliative reirradiation for progressive diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.

Eur. J. Cancer, 2017-03-01

Survival benefit for patients with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) undergoing re-irradiation at first progression: A matched-cohort analysis on behalf of the SIOP-E-HGG/DIPG working group.

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