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Pineal parenchymal tumours: I. Pineocytoma: a tumour responsive to platinum-based chemotherapy
1Department of Radiotherapy, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|June 25, 2004
Abstract:
Pineocytoma and pineoblastoma are now recognised as a spectrum of the same disease. Three cases of pineocytoma (grade I-II) are presented, in which platinum-based chemotherapy was used with some success, either as part of primary therapy or at the time of relapse. With the recent reclassification of pineal parenchymal tumours into a grade I-IV continuum, the place of chemotherapy, previously only well-established in pineoblastoma, is discussed.
