Age‐appropriate multidisciplinary approach to young children with cancer undergoing radiotherapy: The SIESTA procedure

A standardized multidisciplinary step‐by‐step approach to improve the compliance of young (or difficult) children having to undergo radiotherapy was described and applied. The procedure is called SIESTA, which stands for show‐imagination‐evaluation‐support‐treatment‐anesthesia. Preliminary assessments suggest that the SIESTA approach was effective: the rate of young patients (≤6 years) requiring anesthesia decreased from 27% (14/52 cases) in...