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Is postoperative chemotherapy alone sufficient to treat young children with medulloblastoma?

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boxed-textRutkowski S et al. (2005) Treatment of early childhood medulloblastoma by postoperative chemotherapy alone. N Engl J Med 352: 978–986

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