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Recent advances in radiation therapy and its role in childhood malignancies /

Wedad Mohamed Bassam Hashem

Recent advances in radiation therapy and its role in childhood malignancies / أحدث التقنيات في العلاج الإشعاعي و دورها في علاج أورام الأطفال Wedad M. Bassam Hashem ; Supervised Ibtessam Mohamed Saad El Din , Noha Yehia Abdou Ibrahim , Wael Samir Makar - Cairo : Wedad Mohamed Bassam Hashem , 2010 - 146 P. : facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Oncology-Clinical

Radiation therapy plays an essential role in the treatment of many pediatric malignancies. Recent advances in radiation therapy, e.g. conformal radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, image guided radiation therapy and proton therapy, had increased the therapeutic ratio especially in pediatric patients. Minimizing the risk of late effects is a main issue in treatment of pediatric patients with radiation therapy, that can be achieved using those new techniques



Pediatric malignancies Radiation therapy Recent techniques