Team management, twinning, and telemedicine in retinoblastoma: a 3-tier approach implemented in the first eye salvage program in Jordan.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have addressed the efficacy of palliative radiotherapy (RT) for pediatric osteosarcoma (OS), a disease generally considered to be radioresistant. We describe symptom relief, local control, and toxicity associated with palliative RT among children with OS. PROCEDURE:Patients diagnosed with OS at ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chen EL,Yoo CH,Gutkin PM,Merriott DJ,Avedian RS,Steffner RJ,Spunt SL,Pribnow AK,Million L,Donaldson SS,Hiniker SM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophilia is an excellent example in medicine where clinical translation of basic science discoveries has transformed the gloomy outlook of the disease. This review provides an overview of clinical advances in hemophilia management with a specific focus on the molecular heterogeneity of the disease and progress in ma...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Sharathkumar AA,Carcao M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the prevalence of abnormal pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in a cohort of children who had received whole lung irradiation (WLI) for treatment of metastatic disease. PROCEDURE:This was a retrospective (1988-2003) chart review that included all children treated at our institution with ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Weiner DJ,Maity A,Carlson CA,Ginsberg JP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coping with end-stage pediatric cancer patients and the related bereavement is a challenge for all the caregivers involved. PROCEDURE:Forty-seven cancer patients who died in 2006 were assessed as concerns the main place of care in the end stage of their disease, their symptoms, the palliative treatments rec...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Beretta S,Polastri D,Clerici CA,Casanova M,Cefalo G,Ferrari A,Luksch R,Massimino M,Meazza C,Podda MG,Spreafico F,Terenziani M,Bellani FF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most commonly a tissue diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) in children is made by biopsy as opposed to primary resection. Open surgical procedures are often recommended to obtain sufficient material for accurate and complete diagnostic work up. Our institution has routinely used image-guided needle biopsies ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chowdhury T,Barnacle A,Haque S,Sebire N,Gibson S,Anderson J,Roebuck D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is characterized by a short history of brainstem symptoms and well-known magnetic resonance imaging features with a fatal outcome. However, we report three unusual cases of brainstem tumors with an initial indolent and protracted course, which subsequently developed the classica...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Baroni LV,Solano-Paez P,Nobre L,Michaeli O,Hawkins C,Laughlin S,Bartels U,Ramaswamy V,Bouffet E

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Burnout is a work-related syndrome consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished feelings of personal accomplishment. Physicians who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses are at high risk for developing burnout. This survey evaluates the prevalence of burnout among pediatr...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Roth M,Morrone K,Moody K,Kim M,Wang D,Moadel A,Levy A

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of hydroxyurea in hemoglobin SC (HbSC) patients is not well documented. We describe the long-term response to hydroxyurea in children with clinically severe HbSC. In 15 patients, hydroxyurea resulted in a significant increase in mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and fetal hemoglobin (HbF) and a significant de...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yates AM,Dedeken L,Smeltzer MP,Lebensburger JD,Wang WC,Robitaille N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The improved survival rates for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) may be jeopardized by the development of a second cancer, which has been associated with thiopurine therapy. PROCEDURE:We retrospectively analyzed three sequential Nordic Society of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology's protocols c...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Nielsen SN,Eriksson F,Rosthoej S,Andersen MK,Forestier E,Hasle H,Hjalgrim LL,Aasberg A,Abrahamsson J,Heyman M,Jónsson ÓG,Pruunsild K,Vaitkeviciené GE,Vettenranta K,Schmiegelow K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy associated with morbidity and mortality. We sought to understand family planning intentions of parents of young children with SCD including the awareness of three reproductive options (adoption, in vitro fertilization with egg/sperm donatio...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Schultz CL,Tchume-Johnson T,Jackson T,Enninful-Eghan H,Schapira MM,Smith-Whitley K

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Immunotherapy with the anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody ch14.18, or dinutuximab, represents an important therapeutic advance in the treatment of pediatric high-risk neuroblastoma and is now considered part of standard of care in this patient population. To date, transverse myelitis as a result of dinutuximab therapy has n...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Ding YY,Panzer J,Maris JM,Castañeda A,Gomez-Chiari M,Mora J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Thalassemia major (TM) is an inherited disorder caused by ineffective erythropoiesis. At the present time, allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is a curative option. Conventional busulfan and cyclophosphamide based myeloablative conditioning regimens are limited by increased toxicity, especially...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Sheth V,Grisariu S,Avni B,Stepensky P,Ashkenazi M,Shapira MY,Or R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody therapy has become standard of care for adult B cell lymphoma patients. It is a potentially less toxic and more targeted approach for lymphoma therapy and should therefore be applied to treat pediatric B cell lymphoma patients as well. In pediatric lymphoma patients, however, clinical experience with monoclon...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： van Vuren A,Meyer-Wentrup F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a genetic overgrowth and cancer predisposition syndrome, associated with both benign and malignant adrenal findings. Literature review and an institutional case series elucidate the wide spectrum of adrenal findings in BWS patients. The altered expression of the 11p15 region is lik...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： MacFarland SP,Mostoufi-Moab S,Zelley K,Mattei PA,States LJ,Bhatti TR,Duffy KA,Brodeur GM,Kalish JM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe congenital neutropenia is a rare disease, and autosomal dominantly inherited ELANE mutation is the most frequently observed genetic defect in the registries from North America and Western Europe. However, in eastern countries where consanguineous marriages are common, autosomal recessive forms might b...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yılmaz Karapınar D,Patıroğlu T,Metin A,Çalışkan Ü,Celkan T,Yılmaz B,Karakaş Z,Karapınar TH,Akıncı B,Özkınay F,Onay H,Yeşilipek MA,Akar HH,Tüysüz G,Tokgöz H,Özdemir GN,Aslan Kıykım A,Karaman S,Kılınç Y,Oymak Y,Küpe

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old female with atrial septal defect presented with bilateral ovarian mature cystic teratomas. Three spleniculi adjacent to the main spleen were noticed while the endoscopic surgery. Two years later a heart tumor was discovered which led to death. Pathologic examination of samples of the mass proved it to be...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Pollono DG,Drut R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a primary immunodeficiency that affects the oxidative mechanism of microbial killing of phagocytic cells. The defect is characterized by a lack or severely reduced superoxide anion (O2-) production by phagocytes. Seventy percent of CGD cases are X-linked (X-CGD) and they are caus...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Barese CN,Copelli SB,De Matteo E,Zandomeni R,Salgueiro F,Di Giovanni D,Heyworth P,Rivas EM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies suggest that SLCO1B1 c.521T > C variant decreases the clearance of methotrexate (MTX) and elevates its plasma concentration, hence leucovorin doses may need to be adjusted. However, high leucovorin doses may affect the cure rate in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Hitherto neither...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Zhang HN,He XL,Wang C,Wang Y,Chen YJ,Li JX,Niu CH,Gao P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk-adapted, response-based therapies for pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma have resulted in 5-year survival exceeding 90%. Although high-dose chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) are considered standard for most patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma, a subset of childr...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Harker-Murray PD,Drachtman RA,Hodgson DC,Chauvenet AR,Kelly KM,Cole PD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MIRAGE syndrome caused by mutations in SAMD9 is associated with potential loss of chromosome 7 (-7/7q-) and an increased risk to develop myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). We report a case of MIRAGE syndrome, caused by a novel SAMD9 mutation p.Leu641Pro, leading to characteristic clinical features as well as to the coexi...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Csillag B,Ilencikova D,Meissl M,Webersinke G,Laccone F,Narumi S,Haas O,Duba HC

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of invasive, keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx in an 8-year-old female treated with laryngectomy is presented. Perinatal exposure to human papilloma virus and constitutional heterozygosity for a FANCC mutation were identified, though FANCC heterozygosity is not known to be cancer predisposing. ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： D'Souza AM,Mark J,Demarcantonio M,Leino D,Sisson R,Geller JI

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatoblastoma (HB) and biliary atresia (BA) are both rare conditions that occurred in the patient described. This is the second such case in the literature. An explanation for this apparent coincidence could possibly be found in the existance of pluripotent liver stem cells. In humans, small epithelial cells (SEC) be...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Taat F,Bosman DK,Aronson DC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The youngest siblings may be both emotionally vulnerable and often neglected members of the family of a childhood cancer patient. The prompt identification of signs of distress in these subjects allows trained caregivers to intervene with personalized, age-appropriate, attention, and care. A narrative approach, based ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Massimo LM,Wiley TJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrition therapy is a therapeutic approach to treating medical conditions and symptoms via diet, which can be done by oral, enteral or parenteral routes. It is desirable to include nutritional interventions as a standard of care in pediatric cancer units (PCUs) at all levels of care. The interventions are dependent o...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Trehan A,Viani K,da Cruz LB,Sagastizado SZ,Ladas EJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective studies suggest that there is high mortality in children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and severe malaria. We assessed mortality in Ugandan children with severe malarial anemia (SMA, n = 232) or cerebral malaria (CM, n = 267) by sickle cell hemoglobin genotype. Admission and 2-year follow-up mortality di...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Opoka RO,Bangirana P,Idro R,Shabani E,Namazzi R,John CC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The views and clinical practice of children's cancer units were surveyed regarding management of central venous catheter (CVC) occlusion (CVC-occlusion), CVC-related thrombosis (CVC-thrombosis) and thromboembolism (CVC-thromboembolism). PROCEDURE:A questionnaire was sent to all 22 United Kingdom Children's ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Skinner R,Koller K,McIntosh N,McCarthy A,Pizer B,United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group (UKCCSG).,Paediatric Oncology Nursing Forum (PONF) Supportive Care Group.

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alvespimycin (17-DMAG, KOS-1022), a potent small-molecule inhibitor of the protein chaperone Hsp90, is being developed as an anticancer agent because of the multiple Hsp90 client proteins involved in cancer cell growth and survival. PROCEDURES:Alvespimycin was tested against the in vitro panel of the Pediat...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Smith MA,Morton CL,Phelps DA,Kolb EA,Lock R,Carol H,Reynolds CP,Maris JM,Keir ST,Wu J,Houghton PJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fifteen evidence-based Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families (Standards) were published in 2015. The Standards cover a broad range of topics and circumstances and require qualified multidisciplinary staff to be implemented. This paper presents data on the availability of...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Scialla MA,Canter KS,Chen FF,Kolb EA,Sandler E,Wiener L,Kazak AE

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroblastoma is characterized by heterogeneity of histology, biology, and clinical behavior. Most epidemiology studies are based on Western and Japanese populations; there are very few studies on neuroblastoma from Southeast Asia. PROCEDURE:Cases of Thai children with neuroblastoma were retrospectively rev...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Shuangshoti S,Shuangshoti S,Nuchprayoon I,Kanjanapongkul S,Marrano P,Irwin MS,Thorner PS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00