Feasibility of intraoperative electron beam radiation therapy in the treatment of locally advanced pediatric malignancies

Intraoperative radiation therapy

“…IORT experts at Ohio State University and MSKCC in New York have elected HDR-brachytherapy or alternatively electrons as technology for paediatric patients depending upper tumour location and surgical accessibility [65,66]. A recent up-date from MSKCC experience describes results in 66 paediatric patients with solid tumours treated in the period 1993-2002.…”