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Chemo instead of radiotherapy cuts long-term side-effects for children with brain tumours

24 Jul 2007

Using chemotherapy to delay or avoid radiotherapy in children under three with a type of brain tumour called ependymoma reduces the risk of potentially damaging long-term side effects, reveal trial results published online in the Lancet Oncology.

Researchers from the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), funded by Cancer Research UK and Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, undertook a ten-year trial involving 89 children from the UK, Scandinavia and The Netherlands with newly diagnosed ependymomas, and monitored their progress for up to 12 years.

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