Structure of the Pediatric Competence Network of the German GPOH (Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology)




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Neuroradiology, Universityhospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

 



The pediatric oncologists in Germany are running multicenter treatment optimization studies for all kinds of tumors including CNS tumors. They have instituted reference centers for neuropathology, CSF cytology, radiotherapy, and neuroradiology for these studies in order to harmonize the individual results of histological diagnosis, staging, treatment, and response evaluation of their patients who are diagnosed and treated in many different hospitals all over the country [6, 7] rather than in few specialized centers. It has been recognized in several German and European studies that the event-free survival (EFS) of the study patients has been improved by a central review process [8]. The author has been working as the leader of the reference center for neuroradiology for more than 20 years. The aim of this publication is to present on one hand an easy way to approximately predict or sometimes diagnose the histology of many pediatric brain tumors from the aspect on imaging examinations, and on the other hand to guide into the different aspects of trial requirements, frequent diagnostic quality problems, and questions from the oncologists that have to be answered by the radiologist and are influencing the planning of imaging procedures.

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Sep 6, 2017 | Posted by in PEDIATRIC IMAGING | Comments Off on Structure of the Pediatric Competence Network of the German GPOH (Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology)

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