Long-term survival among patients with most common childhood brain tumor is high; lower if treatment included radiation

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 15:02 in Health & Medicine

Study of long-term survival of children with most common pediatric brain tumor finds almost 90 percent are alive 20 years later and few died from the tumor as adults. However, children treated with radiation had significantly lower long-term survival rates than children who were not radiated.

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