Randomized trial to compare LSA2L2-type maintenance therapy to daily 6-mercaptopurine and weekly methotrexate with vincristine and dexamethasone pulse for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

abstract：:We report the case of a drug interaction between methotrexate (MTX) and chloral hydrate (CH) observed in a child treated for acute leukemia. Significantly slower MTX clearance and increased MTX exposure occurred on the first three courses of a high-dose chemotherapy when co-administered with CH despite normal renal fu...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Dao K,Ivanyuk A,Buclin T,Beck-Popovic M,Diezi M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few data exist regarding the clinical outcome of patients with Ewing sarcoma (EWS) treated with pencil beam scanning proton therapy (PT). We report the outcome of children, adolescents and young adults (AYA) treated with PT at the Paul Scherrer Institute. MATERIALS:Thirty-eight patients (median age, 9.9 yea...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Weber DC,Murray FR,Correia D,Bolsi A,Frei-Welte M,Pica A,Lomax AJ,Schneider R,Bachtiary B

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited red blood cell disorder that occurs worldwide and results in significant morbidity and mortality. In addition to affected children who are born in the US, an increasing number of children with SCD are migrating to the US with their families or through international adoption. C...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Thornburg CD,Ware RE

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poverty is an important patient-reported outcome of therapy and a potential predictor of outcome disparities in pediatric cancer. We previously identified that nearly 30% of pediatric cancer families experience household material hardship (HMH), a concrete measure of poverty including food, energy, or housing insecuri...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bilodeau M,Ma C,Al-Sayegh H,Wolfe J,Bona K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In HLH-94, the first prospective international treatment study for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), diagnosis was based on five criteria (fever, splenomegaly, bicytopenia, hypertriglyceridemia and/or hypofibrinogenemia, and hemophagocytosis). In HLH-2004 three additional criteria are introduced; low/absent NK...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Henter JI,Horne A,Aricó M,Egeler RM,Filipovich AH,Imashuku S,Ladisch S,McClain K,Webb D,Winiarski J,Janka G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is characterized by frequent disease-related events that require acute care. It is unknown to what extent patients utilize multiple hospitals for acute care. We examined the continuity pattern of acute care visits to the hospital or emergency department. We hypothesized that among p...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Panepinto JA,Owens PL,Mosso AL,Steiner CA,Brousseau DC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug shortages require clinical teams to decide how to allocate drugs in limited supply among their patients. Ethical frameworks are invaluable for promoting rational approaches to drug distribution, but gaps remain between ethical theory and clinical application. The goal of this work was to explore how dec...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Russell HV,Bernhardt MB,Berg S

更新日期：2017-07-01 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:Severe pandemic influenza A (H1N1) infection can lead to acute respiratory failure (ARF) with associated high mortality. Children with malignancy may be at higher risk of H1N1-associated ARF because of underlying primary disease or immunosuppression associated with chemotherapy. PROCEDURE:We describe the cl...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Elbahlawan L,Gaur AH,Furman W,Jeha S,Woods T,Norris A,Morrison RR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with cancer may be at an increased risk of infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) when levels of hepatitis B antibodies are reduced owing to chemotherapy-induced immunosuppression. This study evaluated the changes in HBV antibody status and HBV infections after chemotherapy in children with acute ly...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Choi YB,Lee NH,Yi ES,Kim YJ,Koo HH

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically apparent jaundice is unusual in patients with beta-thalassemia major. Co-inheritance of Gilbert syndrome has been reported to cause hyperbilirubinemia in these subjects. Crigler-Najjar syndrome is another rare disorder of bilirubin metabolism caused by mutation in the gene coding the enzyme UGT1A1. We repor...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Aggarwal V,Seth A,Sharma S,Aneja S,Sammarco P,Fabiano C

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fever and neutropenia (F&N) is a pediatric oncology emergency due to the risk of disseminated infection. Quality improvement (QI) efforts to improve time to antibiotics for F&N in the emergency department have been documented, but the issue has not been studied in the established inpatient setting. PROCEDUR...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Green AL,Yi J,Bezler N,Pikman Y,Tubman VN,Obeng EA,O'Neil T,Mersereau R,Morrissey L,Billett AL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deferasirox (Exjade®, Novartis) is a widely used oral iron chelator for the treatment of patients with iron overload due to chronic transfusion therapy for diseases such as β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Renal side effects of deferasirox are common and include non-progressive increases in serum creatinine, how...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Rheault MN,Bechtel H,Neglia JP,Kashtan CE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS), a rare vascular sarcoma with a clinically indolent course, frequently presents with metastases. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a promising therapeutic target. In a phase-II trial of the VEGF receptor inhibitor cediranib for adults with ASPS, the partial respon...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Cohen JW,Widemann BC,Derdak J,Dombi E,Goodwin A,Dompierre J,Onukwubiri U,Steinberg SM,O'Sullivan Coyne G,Kummar S,Chen AP,Glod J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim was to evaluate self-reported reproductive characteristics and markers of ovarian function in a nationwide cohort of female survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), because prior investigations have produced conflicting data. PROCEDURE:Self-reported reproductive characteristics wer...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Roshandel R,van Dijk M,Overbeek A,Kaspers G,Lambalk C,Beerendonk C,Bresters D,van der Heiden-van der Loo M,van den Heuvel-Eibrink M,Kremer L,Loonen J,van der Pal H,Ronckers C,Tissing W,Versluys B,van Leeuwen F,van den Ber

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiotherapy (RT) is well established in the management of intracranial ependymoma (EP) and post-operative RT is employed for the majority of patients. There are no randomised trials of RT in EP and evidence for dose and volume relies on retrospective single institution series, usually comprising a heterogen...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Taylor RE

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant degeneration frequently arises from preexisting plexiform neurofibroma in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Image guided biopsy for diagnostic purposes, such as with CT guidance, can be technically challenging in these patients, as CT cannot distinguish malignant from benign areas within the same...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Koethe Y,Widemann BC,Hajjar F,Wood BJ,Venkatesan AM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at risk of developing long-term morbidity, which is likely to be presented to a primary care physician (PCP). Therefore, insight into CCS's PCP-based health care use is needed. We investigated the volume and underlying health problems of PCP-based health care use and the ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Streefkerk N,Heins MJ,Teepen JC,Feijen EAM,Bresters D,van Dulmen-den Broeder E,van der Heiden-van der Loo M,van den Heuvel-Eibrink MM,van Leeuwen FE,Loonen JJ,van der Pal HJH,Ronckers CM,Versluys AB,Tissing WJE,Korevaar JC,

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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:The Children's Oncology Group (COG) publishes consensus guidelines with screening recommendations for early identification of treatment-related morbidities among childhood cancer survivors. We sought to estimate the yield of recommended yearly urinalysis screening for genitourinary complications as per Versi...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Ramirez MD,Mertens AC,Esiashvili N,Meacham LR,Wasilewski-Masker K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing number of long-term survivors of childhood cancer, there continues to be a critical need for development and implementation of evidence-based recommendations for clinical follow-up. In order to establish and maintain health-related follow-up guidelines, it is important to recognize the attributes o...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hawkins MM,Robison LL

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a national pediatric case-control study, we observed a very high relative risk of leukemia in patients who had received continuous etoposide (CE) over 6 months or more, but we could not estimate the absolute risk. The purpose of the present study was to estimate this absolute risk after CE. PROCEDURES:We...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Le Deley MC,Vassal G,Taïbi A,Shamsaldin A,Leblanc T,Hartmann O

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteopenia has been reported in children surviving acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumors, apparently as a consequence of therapy. It has been suggested that cranial irradiation may play a role in the development of this complication. In order to explore that possibility, we examined survivors of brai...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Odame I,Duckworth J,Talsma D,Beaumont L,Furlong W,Webber C,Barr R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptoms of epidural compression (SEC) in children with neuroblastoma (particularly infants) may be misinterpreted, leading to delay in diagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Clinical, imaging and follow-up data of 34 infants with neuroblastoma and SEC diagnosed between 2000 and 2011 at Italian AIEOP centers were ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： De Bernardi B,Quaglietta L,Haupt R,Castellano A,Tirtei E,Luksch R,Mastrangelo S,Viscardi E,Indolfi P,Cellini M,Tamburini A,Erminio G,Gandolfo C,Sorrentino S,Vetrella S,Gigliotti AR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:We wanted to ascertain patterns of recurrence, re-treatment, and outcome among 188 eligible patients treated for localized orbital sarcoma on IRSG Protocols III/IV, 1984-1997. PROCEDURE:Retrospective chart review. RESULTS:Twenty-four of 188 patients (12.8%) developed local (n = 22) or distant relapse (n = ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Raney B,Huh W,Hawkins D,Hayes-Jordan A,Million L,Rodeberg D,Teot L,Anderson J,Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee of the Children's Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA.

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of primary CNS lymphoma (PCNSL) treated with high-dose methotrexate. Though standard adult treatment of PCNSL incorporates whole-brain radiotherapy, the literature suggests it may be possible to delay or avoid radiotherapy and the associated increased risk of neurologic sequelae in pediatric patien...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Shah AC,Kelly DR,Nabors LB,Oakes WJ,Hilliard LM,Reddy AT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A contemporaneous presentation of a second breast cancer in a mother and an extremity rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) in her daughter led to the diagnosis of the Li Fraumeni syndrome (LFS). Although the association between LFS and RMS in young patients is well recognised 1 there are no guidelines as to how this knowledge shoul...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Trahair T,Andrews L,Cohn RJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alveolar soft part sarcomas (ASPS) are generally chemo- and radio-resistant mesenchymal tumours, with no standardized treatment guidelines. We describe the clinical behaviour of paediatric ASPS and compare these features to previously reported adult series. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The clinical data of 51 child...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Orbach D,Brennan B,Casanova M,Bergeron C,Mosseri V,Francotte N,Van Noesel M,Rey A,Bisogno G,Pierron G,Ferrari A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00