Pediatric Central Nervous System Germinoma: What Can We Understand From a Worldwide Effort to Maximize Cure and Minimize Risk?

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¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: Christine.Hill@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
⁴ National Cancer Insititute, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Christine E Hill-Kayser et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 1;107(2):227-231.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.03.039. Epub 2020 Apr 7.

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: Christine.Hill@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
⁴ National Cancer Insititute, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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