Tumor size as a predictor of outcome in pediatric non-metastatic osteosarcoma of the extremity.

abstract：:The identification and referral of candidate patients for phase I trials relies heavily on pediatric oncologists who must balance their own perceptions of phase I trials with the desires of the patient and his/her family. A survey was sent to 419 physicians practicing pediatric oncology at 30 different institutions. R...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Gilliam MB,Madan-Swain A,Adams JM,Pressey JG

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A National Thalassemia Screening Program was adopted in Taiwan in 1993. This report examined that program's results and impact. METHODS:Patients with beta-thalassemia major born between 1994 and 2003 were recruited through the help of all thalassemia clinics in Taiwan. A structured questionnaire was designed...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chern JP,Lin KH,Lu MY,Lin DT,Jou ST,Yang YL,Chang HH,Su S,Lin KS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) occurs most commonly in young children who present with severe isolated thrombocytopenia and purpura. A marrow examination is not required unless glucocorticoids are used, lest treatment mask incipient acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but controversy exists here. The recommenda...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Segel GB,Feig SA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is emerging as a significant health condition for children. The purpose of this study is to evaluate SDB symptoms in childhood cancer survivors and identify associations with quality of life (QOL) and psychological symptoms. PROCEDURE:A sample of 62 survivors aged 8-18 years...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kathy R,Anna G,Gallicchio L,Gamaldo C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contemporary descriptions of classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) are lacking from sub-Saharan Africa where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are prevalent. METHODS:We describe a prospective cHL cohort in Malawi enrolled from 2013 to 2015. Patients received standardized treatment a...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Westmoreland KD,Stanley CC,Montgomery ND,Kaimila B,Kasonkanji E,El-Mallawany NK,Wasswa P,Mtete I,Butia M,Itimu S,Chasela M,Mtunda M,Chikasema M,Makwakwa V,Kampani C,Dhungel BM,Sanders MK,Krysiak R,Tomoka T,Liomba NG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aciclovir prophylaxis was previously given to all immunocompromised patients treated by our unit, following contact with varicella zoster. In 2003, we changed practice according to National Guidelines, giving prophylaxis only to patients without serum varicella zoster immunoglobulin G antibody (VZ IgG) at diagnosis of...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Manley S,Mallinson H,Caswell M,Keenan R,Pizer B

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:β-Thalassemia intermedia (β-TI) accounts for up to one-fourth of β-thalassemia patients. Evaluating and improving quality of life (QOL) should be a goal in β-TI follow-up and management strategies. Patients' perceptions of their illness and its treatment may impact their QOL. This study aimed to e...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Atwa ZT,Wahed WYA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an important, hidden cause of childhood mortality worldwide. It is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa where national newborn screening programs remain unavailable and most children in rural areas are never diagnosed. We conducted a study at a rural district hospital ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Eastburg L,Peckham A,Kawira E,Chirangi B,Adler D,Akungo BD,Smart LR,Ambrose EE

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Robatumumab (19D12; MK-7454 otherwise known as SCH717454) is a fully human antibody that binds to and inhibits insulin-like growth factor receptor-1 (IGF-1R). This multiinstitutional study (P04720) determined the safety and clinical efficacy of robatumumab in three separate patient groups with resectable ost...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Anderson PM,Bielack SS,Gorlick RG,Skubitz K,Daw NC,Herzog CE,Monge OR,Lassaletta A,Boldrini E,Pápai Z,Rubino J,Pathiraja K,Hille DA,Ayers M,Yao SL,Nebozhyn M,Lu B,Mauro D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidural spinal cord compression as the initial presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a rare and serious complication. Extramedullary disease is rarely reported in patients with ALL. The most common sites are bone, followed by soft tissue, skin and lymph nodes. We describe a child with common B-lineage...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Molina B,Lassaletta A,Andion M,Gonzalez-Vicent M,López-Pino MA,Madero L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorafenib is an inhibitor of multiple kinases (e.g., VEGF receptors, PDGFR, FLT3, RET, BRAF, KIT) and is approved by FDA for treatment of two adult cancers. The activity of sorafenib was evaluated against the PPTP's in vitro and in vivo panels. PROCEDURES:Sorafenib was evaluated against the PPTP in vitro pa...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Keir ST,Maris JM,Lock R,Kolb EA,Gorlick R,Carol H,Morton CL,Reynolds CP,Kang MH,Watkins A,Houghton PJ,Smith MA

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An adapted LMB 96 derived protocol for B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was implemented at the pediatric oncology unit of the Children Welfare Teaching Hospital in Baghdad (Iraq) from 2000 to present. The purpose was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of this intensive therapeutic regimen in a limited...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Moleti ML,Al-Hadad SA,Al-Jadiry MF,Al-Darraji AF,Al-Saeed RM,De Vellis A,Piciocchi A,Uccini S,Foà R,Testi AM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on prognostic factors in pelvic PNET are minimal. We analyzed patients with pelvic PNET treated between June 2003 and November 2011 for prognostic factors. Forty-eight (13%) of 374 patients with PNET were pelvic PNET with median age 14.5 years (range: 5-33); 31 (65%) had metastases. After median follow-up of 20.4...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Biswas B,Agarwala S,Rastogi S,Khan SA,Mohanti BK,Sharma DN,Pathy S,Bakhshi S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medulloblastoma is an infratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumour, diagnosed in paediatric population. The radiotherapy is an essential method of treatment for these tumours. The impact of technical quality of radiation therapy on survival was recently considered. In this study treatment-related variable...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chojnacka M,Skowrońska-Gardas A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global variations in the incidence of pediatric cancers have been described; however, the causes of such differences are not known. We investigated the relationship between the incidence of embryonal tumors and human development index on a global scale. Increasing incidence of neuroblastoma correlates significantly wi...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kamihara J,Ma C,Fuentes Alabi SL,Garrido C,Frazier AL,Rodriguez-Galindo C,Orjuela MA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome for patients with Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFTs) of bone with metastases at diagnosis remains poor despite new approaches to treatment. We evaluated whether a dose-intensity chemotherapy regimen improved survival for patients with ESFTs of bone with metastases at diagnosis. METHODS:We en...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Miser JS,Goldsby RE,Chen Z,Krailo MD,Tarbell NJ,Link MP,Fryer CJ,Pritchard DJ,Gebhardt MC,Dickman PS,Perlman EJ,Meyers PA,Donaldson SS,Moore SG,Rausen AR,Vietti TJ,Grier HE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although genetic and environmental factors are considered to be the main causes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the associations between maternal factors during pregnancy and the childhood ALL is still unclear. PROCEDURE:In this study, meta-analysis was used. Medline, PubMed, and Web of Science were search...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yan K,Xu X,Liu X,Wang X,Hua S,Wang C,Liu X

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old girl with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL) with persistent minimal residual disease (MRD) who underwent standard chemotherapy was found to have a BCR-ABL1-like gene expression pattern. Genome sequencing revealed a JAK2 mutation not previously described in BCP-ALL and a potential th...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Mayfield JR,Czuchlewski DR,Gale JM,Matlawska-Wasowska K,Vasef MA,Nickl C,Pickett G,Ness SA,Winter SS

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is offered as a curative therapy for pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), it may cause severe complications and mortality. Several reports have shown the efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy (IST) in adult patients with refractory anemia (RA), but...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hasegawa D,Manabe A,Yagasaki H,Ohtsuka Y,Inoue M,Kikuchi A,Ohara A,Tsuchida M,Kojima S,Nakahata T,Japanese Childhood MDS Study Group.

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) is standard of care in acute lymphoblastic leukemia to personalize the stratification of patients to appropriate intensity chemotherapy regimens. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) techniques are driving changes to MRD methodologies. Our study demonstrates HTS ca...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Wright G,Watt E,Inglott S,Brooks T,Bartram J,Adams SP

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of the neutropenic diet in the development of infections in oncology and stem cell transplant (SCT) patients is controversial. There is no data on the use of the neutropenic diet among pediatric oncologists. METHODS:A self-administered electronic survey was sent to 1,639 pediatric oncologists at 19...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Braun LE,Chen H,Frangoul H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine the practical applicability, internal consistency, and validity of the Bt-DUX, a disease-specific Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) instrument. The Bt-Dux was developed to examine patients' individual values of their life after a malignant bone tumor of the lower extremity at four domains (co...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bekkering WP,Vlieland TP,Koopman HM,Schaap GR,Schreuder HW,Beishuizen A,Tissing WJ,Hoogerbrugge PM,Anninga JK,Taminiau AH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiotherapy is often deferred in very young children with medulloblastoma, in favor of more intense chemotherapy and stem cell rescue; however, posterior fossa radiation has been shown to improve overall survival (OS) and event-free survival compared with adjuvant chemotherapy alone. This study was performe...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Grewal AS,Li Y,Fisher MJ,Minturn J,Paltin I,Belasco J,Phillips P,Kang T,Lustig RA,Hill-Kayser C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia during induction chemotherapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has been inconsistently associated with risk of infection. We investigated the incidence of hyperglycemia during induction for childhood ALL in a retrospective cohort study of 144 patients treated on a single national protocol...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Dare JM,Moppett JP,Shield JP,Hunt LP,Stevens MC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and abnormal transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography have a high risk of stroke, but this risk is greatly reduced when chronic transfusion therapy is administered. The change in TCD velocities during chronic transfusion therapy and rate and frequency of normalizatio...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kwiatkowski JL,Yim E,Miller S,Adams RJ,STOP 2 Study Investigators.

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess local control, event-free survival (EFS), and overall survival (OS) rates in 71 patients with localized, completely resected (Group I) alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ALV RMS) and their relation to radiation therapy (RT) on IRSG Protocols III and IV, 1984-1997. METHODS:Chart review and standard statistica...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Raney RB,Anderson JR,Brown KL,Huh WW,Maurer HM,Meyer WH,Parham DM,Rodeberg DA,Wolden SL,Donaldson SS,Soft-Tissue Sarcoma Committee of the Children's Oncology Group Arcadia California USA.

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The provision of tele-practice symptom management is often without the provision of evidence-based guidelines. Under the auspices of the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, a nursing task force was established to appraise the evidence and develop guidelines. Promising new efforts to enhance symptom management through...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Tsimicalis A,De Courcy MJ,Di Monte B,Armstrong C,Bambury P,Constantin J,Dagelman B,Eves M,Jansen P,Honeyford L,Stregger D,Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario.

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and moyamoya may benefit from indirect cerebral revascularization surgery in addition to chronic blood transfusion therapy for infarct prevention. We sought to compare overt and silent infarct recurrence rates in children with SCD undergoing revascularization. METHODS...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hall EM,Leonard J,Smith JL,Guilliams KP,Binkley M,Fallon RJ,Hulbert ML

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrotal ulcers are a rare manifestation in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia. Fournier's gangrene (FG) is even rarer. We describe three adolescents and young adults who developed scrotal ulcerations during induction with all-trans-retinoic acid. One patient developed FG. These lesions are predominantly seen i...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Naithani R,Kumar R,Mahapatra M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypogammaglobulinemia (hypo-IgG) is common early post-HSCT in children, occasionally necessitating long-term immunoglobulin (Ig) G replacement therapy. IgG replacement may not reduce mortality, although infectious complications are decreased PROCEDURE:Clinical data and samples from 86 children were analyzed...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Sundin M,Remberger M,Lindqvist H,Omazic B,Sundberg B,Uzunel M,Winiarski J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00