@inbook{c8193ac2f9214cde8e6602f69a1897cf,
title = "Late Effects of Treatment and Palliative Care",
abstract = "Identifying late effects of treatment and integrating palliative care when appropriate are increasingly recognized as important elements of childhood tumor management. Patients with CNS tumors are at a high risk for mortality, and survivors have high morbidity rates related to the late effects of treatment. While intensified therapy has improved average 5-year survival in patients with pediatric brain tumors to 73 % (Ostrom et al. 2014) from less than 60 % in 1975–1979 (Linabery and Ross 2008), it has also increased the long-term consequences. Survivors may develop a spectrum of late effects ranging from subtle memory loss and cosmetic anomalies to severe neurological disabilities and recurrent neoplasms. While seemingly quite different, both palliative and late-effects care focus on improving quality of life for patients and need to be integrated into the overall care plan.",
author = "Eric Chang and Robert Goldsby and Sabine Mueller and Anu Banerjee",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, Springer International Publishing.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-30789-3_17",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Pediatric Oncology",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
number = "9783319307879",
pages = "365--387",
booktitle = "Pediatric Oncology",
edition = "9783319307879",
}