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The success and failure of multimodal therapy for cancer in children
Author(s) -
Evans Audrey E.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197501)35:1<48::aid-cncr2820350107>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , intensive care medicine
Achievements, as well as limitation, in combination treatment of childhood malignancies are discussed. Tumor types are grouped according to response (definite, probable, unknown) to combined treatment. Improvements in survival rates have occurred following the addition of chemotherapy to surgery and radiation therapy in children with Wilms' tumor, and Ewing's and soft tissue sarcoma, probably by suppression of microscopic metastases. So far, advances are not yet apparent following multimodal treatment of neuroblastoma, hepatoma, and ovarian tumors.