Sect. I Introduction, and overview of diagnosis, biology and therapy
1. Introduction / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
2. The epidemiology of paediatric CNS tumours / GA Amos Burke
3. Paediatric CNS tumours: neuroimaging / Shelley Renowden
4. Pathology and molecular oncology of childhood CNS tumours / Lucy B. Rorke-Adams and Jaclyn A Biegel
5. Molecular approaches to the understanding and treatment of childhood CNS tumours / Richard J Gilbertson
6. Surgical management of CNS tumours in the paediatric population / Jerard Ross and John Thorne
7. General principles of radiotherapy / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
8. General principles of chemotherapy / Eddy Estlin
9. Management of complications at presentation for children with CNS tumours / Stephen Lowis
Sect. II CNS tumours of childhood
10. Low-grade and high-grade astrocytoma / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
11. Ependymoma / Ute Bartels, Douglas J Hyder, Annie Huang and Eric Bouffet
12. Brainstem tumours / Carolyn R Freeman and Jean-Pierre Farmer
13. Primitive neuroectodermal tumours / Stephen Lowis
14. Intracranial germ cell tumours / Susanne J Rogers an Frank H Saran
15. Choroid plexus papilloma and carcinoma / Stephen Lowis
- 16. Craniopharyngioma / Eddy Estlin
17. Mixed neuronal tumours / Eddy Estlin
18. Spinal cord tumours in children / Douglas H. Hyder, Peter B Dirks, Ute Bartels and Eric Bouffet
19. Metastatic disease affecting the CNS / Stephen Lowis
Sect. III Late effects, rehabilitation and palliative care
20. Late effects of CNS tumours / Adam Glaser and Gary Butler
21. An overview of cerebral functioning and its application in the developing brain / Andrew Curran
22. Palliative care / Erica Mackie
Sect. IV Summary
23. Conclusions and future directions / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis.