Imaging surveillance is an interesting and yet complicated issue. If a child is enrolled upon a prospective randomized trial for which informed consent has been given, then every effort should be made to follow the protocol guidelines, which are designed to answer a protocol question. However, patie...

The short answer is that in general, you should follow the evaluation guidelines set out by the protocol that you are using to guide therapy in conjunction with the COG late effect guidelines to ensure appropriate surveillance for radiotherapy related insult. Follow-up guidelines on therapeutic prot...