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## Purpose: To retrospectively review the treatment and outcome of pediatric patients with desmoid tumor who received radiation therapy at a single institution. ## Materials and methods: Thirteen pediatric patients received radiation therapy for desmoid tumor at st. jude children's research hospital between 1962 and 1998. only 2 of the patients reviewed received treatment prior to 1976. the median dose of external beam irradiation was 50 gy. ## Results: At the time of this report, 10 of 13 patients have had tumors that recurred after radiation therapy and 3 have died from their disease. one additional patient was harboring a recurrence, and 1 had not been followed long enough to suggest that the patient had achieved disease control. one patient remained locally controlled after radiation therapy with long-term follow-up (196 months). the median time to recurrence following radiation therapy was 19 months (range, 3-135 months). eight of the 13 patients suffered substantial tumor and treatment-related morbidity. ## Conclusions: Desmoid tumors in pediatric patients are locally aggressive tumors that are likely to recur after radiation therapy. alternatives to radiation therapy should

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Author

Thomas E Merchant; Duyen Nguyen; Andrew W Walter; Alberto S Pappo; Larry E Kun; Bhaskar N Rao

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0360-3016)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)