- Maria Inês R. Gonçalves SLP, MSc, PhD 1,2,3
- Tatiana Couto Radzinsky SLP 1
- Nasjla Saba da Silva MD 2
- Brasília Maria Chiari SLP, MSc, PhD 1
- Daniella Consonni SLP, MSc 4,5
- Department of Speech‐Language Pathology, Universìdade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
- Instituto de Oncologia Pediátrica, Brazil
- Department of Communication Disorders, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Brazil
- Department of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, Brazil
- Correspondence address: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Department of Morphology and Genetics, DISCIPLINA DE ANATOMIA TOPOGRAFICA E DESCRITIVA, R. Botucatu, 740, 04023‐900, Sao Paulo, Brazil.===
Central nervous system (CNS) tumors generally leave sequelae that may compromise speech, language, swallowing, hearing, and voice functions. This report describes the incidence of speech‐language and hearing complaints and disorders in children and adolescents with CNS tumor under treatment at one of the most important Brazilian reference center for pediatric cancer. One‐hundred ninety patients were examined for speech‐pathology screening and analysis: forty‐two percent presented with complaints and symptoms. From the remaining patients, 68% presented clinical symptoms and 32% were actually free from any speech‐language and hearing‐related symptoms. The high incidence of complaints and symptoms indicate that these patients might benefit from specific rehabilitation interventions. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2008;50:706–708. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
- oncology
- central nervous system tumors
- pediatrics
- speech‐language and hearing rehabilitation
- deglutition disorders
- 1 - sciences appliquees, technologies et medecines ; 2 - sciences biologiques et medicales ; 3 - sciences medicales