Multidisciplinary Approach to the Treatment of Supratentorial Tumors in Children

Brain tumors can only be treated by the combined efforts of neurosurgeons, radiotherapists, and medical oncologists. This holds especially true in children, where close cooperation with other specialists in mandatory, i.e., the child neurologist for timely diagnosis and follow-up, the neuropsychologist for assessment of treatment effects, and so on. Since standard treatment — surgery and radiotherapy — is not sufficient in a lot of cases, while on the other hand the results of chemotherapy in brain tumors are far from satisfactory, multimodality treatment protocols become more and more necessary for adequate management of brain tumors.