Imaging response assessment for CNS germ cell tumours: consensus recommendations from the European Society for Paediatric Oncology Brain Tumour Group and North American Children's Oncology Group

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Neurosciences, Neuroradiology Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
• ² Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology and Proton Center, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
• ⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁶ Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Imaging, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
• ⁸ Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁰ Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• ¹¹ Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ¹² Institute of Paediatric Hematology and Oncology, Lyon, France.
• ¹³ Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Neuroradiology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
• ¹⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Particle Therapy, University Hospital, Essen, Germany; West German Proton Therapy Centre, Essen, Germany; West German Cancer Center, Essen, Germany.
• ²⁰ Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ²¹ Pediatric Brain Tumour Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ²² Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
• ²³ Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK; Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].