Rare-25. long-term outcome of skull base chordomas in children and adolescents

CONCLUSIONS:The results of this series, which included a sizeable number of patients, treated in a consistent manner, by one surgeon, with a long-term follow-up period, make significant findings of the value of radical surgical resection associated with adjuvant proton/photon radiotherapy for a longer survival of children and adolescents with skull base chordoma.

Source: Neuro-Oncology - November 6, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Hulou, M. M., Rassi, M., Almefty, K., Bi, W. L., Pravdenkova, S., Dunn, I., Smith, T., Al-Mefty, O. Tags: RARE TUMORS Source Type: research