Modern approaches to radiation therapy in children and adolescents

Abstract

In this review lecture on questions of modern approaches to radiation therapy (RT) at children and adolescents, actual concepts on volumes of RT, ways of its’ determination and correction, possible ways of decreasing of side effects are given. Lecture demonstrates new methods of RT including tomotherapy, which was firstly introduced for children in Federal Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitriy Rogachev, presented the possibilities of multicenter and international collaboration to improve the situation in the field of radiology for children and adolescents.