ABSTRACT
The incidence of pediatric cancer has climbed now to 16 per 100,000 children every year. In conjunction with this rise, survival for these patients has vastly improved. By the year 2010, 1 in 250 young adults will be survivors of childhood cancer. As treatments have become increasingly intense or novel, the neurologist is consulted more often to assist in the diagnosis and management of problems experienced by either the child recently diagnosed with cancer or the long-term survivor. An exhaustive review of the neurologic difficulties experienced by the patient with cancer is expansive and can consume a textbook (see Suggested Readings). In this chapter, our aim will be to address the clinical features, diagnosis, and management of the most common neurologic complaints, along with their most common causes, encountered by pediatric oncology patients.
