TY - BOOK AU - Wedad Mohamed Bassam Hashem AU - Ibtessam Mohamed Saad Eldin , AU - Noha Yehia Abdou Ibrahim , AU - Wael Samir Makar , TI - Recent advances in radiation therapy and its role in childhood malignancies / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Wedad Mohamed Bassam Hashem , KW - Pediatric malignancies KW - Radiation therapy KW - Recent techniques N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Oncology-Clinical; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -