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Help please! is chemotherapy or radiation therapy more commonly used to treat childhood leukaemia?
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Pediatric cancer : Chemotherapy is commonly used for childhood leukemia. Radiation can also be a part of the treatment especially for prevention of brain recurrence.
Answered 8/23/2013
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More and more: We are moving away from cranial radiation in leukemia if we can. Leukemia cells use the central nervous system as a sanctuary site (ie., they hide there, and in the testes too). For patients with CNS disease at diagnosis, radiation is still a part of treatment. However, for CNS negative patients, we now use repeated intrathecal therapy for CNS prophylaxis. CNS relapse treatment involves radiation.
Answered 11/2/2015
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