Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease in Liberia: A Pilot Study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carboplatin is the most effective drug in retinoblastoma but systemic clearance is variable in young patients. While most regimens use a flat dose, individualized targeting may provide a more adjusted systemic exposure. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We compared carboplatin doses between two groups of children with r...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Allen S,Wilson MW,Watkins A,Billups C,Qaddoumi I,Haik BH,Rodriguez-Galindo C

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of our study was to assess long-term cause-specific mortality of 5-year childhood cancer survivors. PROCEDURE:The study population consisted of 1,378 patients who had been treated for childhood cancer in The Netherlands between 1966 and 1996 and survived at least 5 years; follow-up was complete ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Cardous-Ubbink MC,Heinen RC,Langeveld NE,Bakker PJ,Voûte PA,Caron HN,van Leeuwen FE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the pediatric population, pathologic bleeding is often challenging to identify. The pediatric bleeding questionnaire (PBQ) was developed as a screening tool for von Willebrand disease (VWD) but was designed to be self-completed by children above 12 years of age. The study objective was to determine whethe...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bui J,Martyres D,James PD,Grabell J,Wu J,Steele M,Silva M,Rand ML,Blanchette VS,Barrowman N,Klaassen RJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extramedullary infiltration (EMI) is an occasional clinical symptom in childhood acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), but there is considerable controversy regarding the prognostic significance of EMI in AML. PROCEDURE:We evaluated the frequency and prognostic significance of EMI at diagnosis of AML in childre...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kobayashi R,Tawa A,Hanada R,Horibe K,Tsuchida M,Tsukimoto I,Japanese childhood AML cooperative study group.

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objectives of this study were to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs), pharmacokinetics, and anti-tumor effect of irinotecan in pediatric patients with recurrent or refractory malignancies. PROCEDURE:Twenty-three patients between 1 and 21 years of age, with a solid...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bomgaars L,Kerr J,Berg S,Kuttesch J,Klenke R,Blaney SM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many pediatric oncology patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) require nutritional support (NS) because of their inability to consume adequate caloric intake enough calories orally. Although NS can be provided either enteraly (EN) or parenteraly (PN), EN is the preferred method of...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Williams-Hooker R,Adams M,Havrilla DA,Leung W,Roach RR,Mosby TT

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have found that parents of children with cancer desire more prognostic information than is often given even when prognosis is poor. We explored in audio-recorded consultations the kinds of information they seek. METHODS:Ethnographic study including observation and audio recording of consult...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bluebond-Langner M,Hall N,Vincent K,Henderson EM,Russell J,Beecham E,Bryan G,Gains JE,Gaze MN,Slater O,Langner RW,Hargrave D

更新日期：2021-03-01 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：:Six patients with high-risk neuroblastoma underwent the second stem cell collection round with G-CSF (5 μg/kg/day) + plerixafor (0.24 mg/kg/day) because the amount of CD34(+) cells collected during the first collection round with G-CSF alone was insufficient. The number of CD34(+) cells collected in the second collect...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Son MH,Kang ES,Kim DH,Lee SH,Yoo KH,Sung KW,Koo HH,Kim DW,Kim JY,Cho EJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline DICER1 pathogenic variants predispose to numerous benign and malignant tumors. In this report, we describe DICER1 gene analysis in an adolescent diagnosed with multinodular goiter, ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor, and lung cyst. DICER1 mutational screening at the DNA level failed to detect any pathogenic va...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Verrier F,Dubois d'Enghien C,Gauthier-Villars M,Bonadona V,Faure-Conter C,Dijoud F,Stoppa-Lyonnet D,Houdayer C,Golmard L

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family financial hardship has emerged as a burden of pediatric cancer treatment with negative implications for family well-being. As part of an extensive project to create evidence-based standards for the psychosocial care of children with cancer, we performed a literature review of pediatric cancer-associated financi...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Pelletier W,Bona K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global burden of sickle cell disease (SCD) is now being increasingly realized. SCD poses a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, some regions of India, the Caribbean, and Brazil. In many of these regions, progress in the management of SCD has been slow. Long-term North-South and...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Aygun B,Odame I

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation necrosis is a potentially debilitating side effect of therapy necessary to treat pediatric central nervous system tumors. Clinical signs of cerebral radiation necrosis (CRN) are similar to symptoms of disease progression and require close monitoring. The case of an infant diagnosed with a malignant rhabdoid ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： L'Hotta AJ,Thomas KM,Milgrom SA,Hemenway MS,Levy JMM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is the most common childhood sarcoma and is a component of the familial pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB)-predisposition syndrome. Using the PPB model, we hypothesized that DICER1 mutations would be found in familial and sporadic forms of ERMS. Blood samples from four children with famil...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Doros L,Yang J,Dehner L,Rossi CT,Skiver K,Jarzembowski JA,Messinger Y,Schultz KA,Williams G,André N,Hill DA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Current guidelines recommend high-priority treatment of severe sickle cell disease (SCD) pain with opioids; however, patients with SCD have historically been undertreated. We used mixed methods to assess pediatric residents' perceptions toward opioid use in SCD pain management. METHODS:We distributed a surve...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Fearon A,Marsh A,Kim J,Treadwell M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of hemophagocytosis (HPC) in tissue or bone marrow (BM) represents only one of 5/8 criteria needed for the diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). Yet, confirmation of HPC in bone marrow aspirates (BMA) is often relied upon to make therapeutic decisions. There is no standard...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Gupta A,Tyrrell P,Valani R,Benseler S,Weitzman S,Abdelhaleem M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the visual outcome of children affected by an optic pathway glioma (OPG). PROCEDURES:We evaluated the long-term visual outcome of 32 consecutive children affected by OPG without neurofibromatosis type-1 referred to the Pediatric Department of Padua University and managed according to s...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Campagna M,Opocher E,Viscardi E,Calderone M,Severino SM,Cermakova I,Perilongo G

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：PURPOSE:The Children's Oncology Group conducted a phase II trial of 21-day continuous infusion topotecan to determine the response rate in pediatric patients with recurrent or refractory malignant solid tumors. PROCEDURE:Patients with Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT), osteosarcoma (OS), soft tissue sarcomas (STS)...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hawkins DS,Bradfield S,Whitlock JA,Krailo M,Franklin J,Blaney SM,Adamson PC,Reaman G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with hepatoblastoma (HB) are at risk of sarcopenia due to immobility, chemotherapy, and malnutrition. We hypothesized that children with HB have a low preoperative total psoas muscle area (tPMA), reflecting sarcopenia, which negatively impacts outcome. PROCEDURE:Retrospective study of children (1-1...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Ritz A,Kolorz J,Hubertus J,Ley-Zaporozhan J,von Schweinitz D,Koletzko S,Häberle B,Schmid I,Kappler R,Berger M,Lurz E

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thiotepa and carboplatin are known to be active in central nervous system tumors. Topotecan potentiates the anti-cancer effects of alkylators and crosses the blood-brain barrier. We present ten patients with recurrent or progressive central nervous system malignancies treated on a myeloablative regimen using...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Gilheeney SW,Khakoo Y,Souweidane M,Wolden S,Boulad F,Dunkel IJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric cancer survivors have increased risk of obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes, leading to premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). Multiple tissues that are involved in glucose homeostasis and lipid metabolism are adversely affected by chemotherapy. This review highlights the relevant tissu...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Rosen GP,Nguyen HT,Shaibi GQ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously shown that aerosol interleukin-2 (IL-2) increased the number of intravenously injected human natural killer (NK) cells in the lungs. In this study we investigated whether this increase was secondary to NK cell proliferation and determined the site of the proliferation. MATERIALS AND METHO...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Guma SR,Lee DA,Ling Y,Gordon N,Kleinerman ES

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLPD), due to the reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), is a serious complication. The risk of the disorder increases with T-cell depletion methods, mismatched hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and immunosuppression. In c...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kasow KA,Leung W,Horwitz EM,Woodard P,Handgretinger R,Hale GA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans cell histiocytosis is known to mimic many other conditions. We present two patients where anti-tubercular therapy was instituted when clinical and radiological features suggested tuberculosis. The correct diagnosis of histiocytosis was reached only on further work-up including immunohistochemistry following...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Sharma P,Dhingra KK,Sural S,Mandal AK,Singh T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bereaved families fear their child being forgotten by those who knew their loved child, including their child's oncology team. Thoughtfully timed, family-centric condolences shared by pediatric oncology team members have the potential to extend our compassion and kindness toward a family during the darkness of grief. ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Weaver MS,Lichtenthal WG,Larson K,Wiener L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past decade, PET-CT has been used to assess rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) in children. However, the role of PET-CT in staging RMS is unknown. PROCEDURE:Thirty subjects with RMS, median age 7.3 years, underwent PET-CT before therapy. PET-CTs and conventional imaging (CI) were independently reviewed by two ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Federico SM,Spunt SL,Krasin MJ,Billup CA,Wu J,Shulkin B,Mandell G,McCarville MB

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Research using banked tissue is key to advancing risk-stratification and treatment of children with cancer. Knowledge of parental attitudes to ethical issues arising in tissue banking is very limited but essential in obtaining respectful consent. METHODS:One hundred parents of consecutively diagnosed children ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： McMurter B,Parker L,Fraser RB,Magee JF,Kozancyzn C,Fernandez CV

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) is the most common non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis in children. The mortality and morbidity of JXG with extracutaneous lesions remain unclear. METHODS:Data of patients aged < 18 years who were diagnosed with JXG between 2001 and 2010 were retrospectively collected through a ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Maeda M,Morimoto A,Shioda Y,Asano T,Koga Y,Nakazawa Y,Kanegane H,Kudo K,Ohga S,Ishii E,Histiocytosis Study Group of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology.

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nephrogenic rests (NRs) are abnormally persistent foci of embryonal cells, thought to be the precursor lesion of Wilms tumors (WTs). To date, their presence has not been systematically examined in WTs treated with preoperative chemotherapy. METHODS:A systematic analysis of the data on NRs in WTs treated wit...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Vujanić GM,Apps JR,Moroz V,Ceroni F,Williams RD,Sebire NJ,Pritchard-Jones K

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00