This retrospective study was carried out on 57 children (34 boys and 23 girls, aged from 1 to 14 years old) with brain tumors (cerebral astrocytomas) treated by surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy at HCM city Cancer Hospital from Jan 1st 1997 to Dec 31st 2001. Results: common symptoms at the onset were intra-cranial hypertension and focal neurological dysfunction. All had only single tumor. The most common location was in the cerebellum, and then was in the hemispheres. The indication of adjuvant therapies depended on histological grades, child’s age extension of excision, performance status... 65% patients completed the treatment course, and the rest neither completed nor treated because of rapid progression of disease. The median survival of all patients depended on histological grades
Astrocytoma ; child ; Hypertension