POSTOPERATIVE CHEMOTHERAPY WITHOUT RADIATION IN YOUNG-CHILDREN WITH MALIGNANT NON-ASTROCYTIC BRAIN-TUMORS - A REPORT FROM THE AUSTRALIA-AND-NEW-ZEALAND-CHILDHOOD-CANCER-STUDY-GROUP (ANZCCSG)

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WHITE, L
JOHNSTON, H
JONES, R
MAMEGHAN, H
NAYANAR, V
MCWHIRTER, W
KELLIE, S
WATERS, K
TOOGOOD, I
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[1] Prince of Wales Children's Hospital, RANDWICK, 2031, NSW, High Street
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10.1007/BF00735928
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R73 [肿瘤学];
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Young children with malignant brain tumours have particularly poor survival and manifest severe sequelae of radiation therapy. A multi-institutional pilot study of post-operative primary chemotherapy for children under 3 years with primitive neuroectodermal tumours (PNET) or ependymoma was initiated in 1987. The chemotherapy protocol comprised carboplatin, vincristine and the ''eight drugs in 1 day'' regimen. Radiation was recommended only if tumour progression or recurrence was documented. A total of 14 patients between 5 and 36 months of age were enrolled. Seven had supratentorial tumours (PNET, pinealoblastoma, intracranial retinoblastoma) with multiple predictors of adverse outcome. Four of these responded to initial chemotherapy but subsequently progressed and all had died by 16 months from diagnosis. The seven patients with infratentorial tumours (three medulloblastomas, four ependymomas) had more favourable predictors of outcome: no meningeal dissemination and gross macroscopic resection in six of the seven cases. One patient progressed rapidly and died within 5 months. The other six are alive at 37-57 months from diagnosis. Four are in continuous complete remission at 57, 51, 41 and 37 months, respectively from the time of their tumour resection. One is described as having stable disease with a persistent radiographic lesion at 41 months from diagnosis. One has relapsed on two occasions and is the only surviving patient to have been irradiated. Intelligence scores for the six long-term survivors have thus for remained within the normal range. It is suggested that some infants with standard-risk ependymoma and, possibly, medulloblastoma may be cured without radiation therapy.
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