Intensive chemotherapy improves survival in pediatric high-grade glioma after gross total resection: results of the HIT-GBM-C protocol.

  • Johannes E A Wolff
  • Pablo Hernaiz Driever
  • Bernhard Erdlenbruch
  • Rolf D Kortmann
  • Stefan Rutkowski
  • Torsten Pietsch
  • Crystal Parker
  • Monica Warmuth Metz
  • Astrid Gnekow
  • Christof M Kramm

Abstract

The authors hypothesized that intensified chemotherapy in protocol HIT-GBM-C would increase survival of pediatric patients with high-grade glioma (HGG) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number3
ISSN0008-543X
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 19957326