[Neurological complications of systemic cancer and its treatment]

Therapeutic advances have attained excellent results in the battle against systemic cancer. This has meant cure for many and greater survival. However, these achievements have led to a dramatic increase in neurological complications due to the cancer itself and the surgical treatment on its own or combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. These complications, which are very common in childhood neoplasias, have had much less attention than those of adults, although recently excellent reviews have begun to be published.

In this paper we review the various complications of systemic cancer and its treatment in childhood, emphasizing the differences from that of adults.