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Concurrent carbogen and radiation therapy in children with high-risk brainstem gliomas.

Aquino-Parsons C, Hukin J, Green A

Department of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Center, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. cparsons@bccancer.bc.ca

In an attempt to improve local control, we assessed the feasibility of the addition of 4 min of carbogen inhalation (as a radiosensitizer) to daily fractionated radiotherapy in pediatric patients with high grade and/or diffuse brainstem gliomas. Ten patients inhaled carbogen for >90% of the radiation treatments. Median survival time from start of therapy was 0.80 years. Carbogen inhalation did not appear to improve the dismal prognosis.

Published 12 December 2007 in Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(2): 397-9.
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