A comparative study on the risks of radiogenic second cancers and cardiac mortality in a set of pediatric medulloblastoma patients treated with photon or proton craniospinal irradiation

摘要

Purpose: To compare the risks of radiogenic second cancers and cardiac mortality in 17 pediatric medulloblastorna patients treated with passively scattered proton or field-in-field photon craniospinal irradiation (CSI).