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Childhood Ependymoma Treatment (PDQ®)

Health Professional Version
Last Modified: 05/10/2012

Changes to This Summary (05/10/2012)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Histopathologic Classification of Childhood Ependymal Tumors 1

Added Grill et al. as reference 4 2.

Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Childhood Ependymoma 3

Added Massimino et al. (Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 2011) as reference 13 4.

Added Massimino et al. (International Journal of Radiation Oncolology, Biology, Physics 2011) as reference 21 5 and level of evidence 2A.

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1http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessi
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2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessi
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3http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessi
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4http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessi
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5http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessi
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