Treatment outcome and pattern of failure in hepatoblastoma treated with a consensus protocol in Hong Kong.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Various projects dedicated specifically to adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer have been developed in recent years. A critical aspect of such programs is the ability to demonstrate its value, and therefore how to measure desired outcomes. METHODS:A list of metrics to consider for demonstrating th...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Ferrari A,Silva M,Veneroni L,Magni C,Clerici CA,Meazza C,Terenziani M,Spreafico F,Chiaravalli S,Casanova M,Luksch R,Catania S,Schiavello E,Biassoni V,Podda M,Bergamaschi L,Puma N,Indini A,Proserpio T,Massimino M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophagocytic lymphohistioytosis (HLH) is a severe, life-threatening hyperinflammatory disorder that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Approximately, 25-50% of patients with HLH fail to achieve remission with established regimens that include dexamethasone and etoposide, or methylprednisolone and antithymocyte...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Marsh RA,Jordan MB,Talano JA,Nichols KE,Kumar A,Naqvi A,Vaiselbuh SR,Histiocyte Society Salvage Therapy Working Group.

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the case report of a 14-year young female who was diagnosed with solitary bone plasmacytoma (SBP) of proximal tibia and was treated by local involved field radiotherapy. We present the clinical, radiological and pathological findings of the case and review of the available treatment options and prognosis of th...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kumar P,Sharma SC,Saikia UN,Kumar N,Vyas S,Angurana SL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CdA) has been successfully used in children to treat refractory Langerhans cell histiocytosis and juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) as salvage therapy. Although 2-CdA is generally well-tolerated, with temporary myelosuppression as the primary dose-limiting toxicity, prolonged myelosuppressive, a...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yamada K,Yasui M,Sawada A,Inoue M,Nakayama M,Kawa K

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of combination chemotherapy with methotrexate (MTX) and asparaginase is not well known in relapsed and refractory acute leukemia after contemporary therapy. PROCEDURE:A retrospective study of pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who received MTX and aspara...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Buaboonnam J,Cao X,Pauley JL,Pui CH,Ribeiro RC,Rubnitz JE,Inaba H

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Pediatric cancer-induced financial burden is source of stress for parents, particularly mothers, single parents, and parents with lower incomes. This financial burden has been linked to poorer family quality of life (QOL) in terms of new onset material hardships, and could also affect individual QOL in terms...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Santacroce SJ,Kneipp SM

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a rare disease of unknown etiology. We wanted to assess the population-based incidence of LCH in a well-defined cohort of children. METHODS:We identified all children <15-years old treated with LCH during the 10 years period 1992-2001 at the Department of Pediatrics, Karolin...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Stålemark H,Laurencikas E,Karis J,Gavhed D,Fadeel B,Henter JI

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MYCN amplification marks poor prognosis in neuroblastoma (NB) tumors. In evaluating the mechanisms by which retinoic acid (RA) or nerve growth factor (NGF) decrease cell number in MYCN amplified NB cells, we have identified a number of proteins whose expression either decreases (E2F, CDC2, CDK6, cyclin depen...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Woo CW,Tan F,Cassano H,Lee J,Lee KC,Thiele CJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：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：:We present here a case of MIRAGE syndrome due to novel variant (c.2318T>C) in the sterile α motif domain-containing protein 9 (SAMD9) gene. Previous reports have described the clinical phenotype, which includes myelodysplasia, recurrent infections, restriction of growth and development, adrenal insufficiency, genitour...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Perisa MP,Rose MJ,Varga E,Kamboj MK,Spencer JD,Bajwa RPS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thrombosis in neonates is a rare but serious occurrence, usually associated with central catheterization. The objective of this study was to investigate the risk factors associated with catheter related thrombosis in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. PROCEDURE:The present retrospective study was perform...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Narang S,Roy J,Stevens TP,Butler-O'Hara M,Mullen CA,D'Angio CT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a sympathetic nervous system-derived tumor, aggressive neuroblastoma (NB) is currently attracting interest from researchers seeking diagnostic and prognostic markers via less invasive procedures. The analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in peripheral blood can provide genetic information from multiple tumor le...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Wei M,Ye M,Dong K,Dong R

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Primary choriocarcinoma of the liver is an extremely rare childhood malignancy frequently associated with clinical instability at initial presentation. It often mimics other benign and malignant childhood liver tumors. Prompt diagnosis and initiation of treatment are necessary to attain a successful outcome. We descri...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yoon JM,Burns RC,Malogolowkin MH,Mascarenhas L

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To search for novel mechanisms that contribute to the pathophysiology of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), we determined the whole blood gene expression profile in five ITP patients and five control samples. Using DNA microarrays that contained 24,473 unique putative genes, we found 176 cDNAs that were strong...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Sood R,Wong W,Jeng M,Zehnder JL

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cutaneous lymphomas are rare in children and mostly represented by mycosis fungoides and CD30(+) lymphoproliferative disorders. Most pediatric cutaneous lymphomas have similar clinical/pathological features as their adult counterparts, particularly the T-cell subtypes. With regard to outcome, adult cutaneous m...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Ceppi F,Pope E,Ngan B,Abla O

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Positron emission tomography (PET) and gallium scans facilitate diagnosis and staging, evaluation of response to therapy, and monitoring for relapse in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), but have not been compared in pediatric HL. PROCEDURE:We performed concurrent PET and gallium scans on 44 pediatric HL patients at di...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hines-Thomas M,Kaste SC,Hudson MM,Howard SC,Liu WA,Wu J,Kun LE,Shulkin BL,Krasin MJ,Metzger ML

更新日期：2008-08-01 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:Progressive/recurrent high-grade and diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs) are fatal. Treatments targeting molecular pathways critical for these cancers are needed. METHODS:We conducted a phase 1 study (rolling-six design) to establish the safety and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of dasatinib, an oral pl...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Broniscer A,Jia S,Mandrell B,Hamideh D,Huang J,Onar-Thomas A,Gajjar A,Raimondi SC,Tatevossian RG,Stewart CF

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children less than 5 years of age with malignant central nervous system (CNS) tumors, continue to have a high rate of morbidity and mortality following administration of conventional therapy. In an attempt to avoid the neurologic sequelae associated with craniospinal radiation, strategies such as high-dose c...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Choi LM,Rood B,Kamani N,La Fond D,Packer RJ,Santi MR,Macdonald TJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although intra-retinal tumor has long been staged presurgically according to the Reese-Ellsworth (R-E) system, retinoblastoma differs from other pediatric neoplasms in never having had a widely accepted classification system that encompasses the entire spectrum of the disease. Comparisons among studies that ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chantada G,Doz F,Antoneli CB,Grundy R,Clare Stannard FF,Dunkel IJ,Grabowski E,Leal-Leal C,Rodríguez-Galindo C,Schvartzman E,Popovic MB,Kremens B,Meadows AT,Zucker JM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morphological evaluation of early response to chemotherapy and measurement of minimal residual disease by flow cytometry or PCR are being used for evaluation of prognosis and treatment stratification in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). PROCEDURE:In a series of 14 consecutive bone marrow in...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Helgestad J,Rosthøj S,Johansen P,Varming K,Østergaard E

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pheochromocytomas (PCs) are neuroendocrine tumors arising from the chromaffin cells of the adrenal gland, and paragangliomas (PGLs) are their extra-adrenal counterparts arising from ganglia along the sympathetic/parasympathetic chain. Surgery is the cornerstone of treatment. A sporatic or inherited germline ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Virgone C,Andreetta M,Avanzini S,Chiaravalli S,De Pasquale D,Crocoli A,Inserra A,D'Angelo P,Alaggio R,Opocher G,Cecchetto G,Ferrari A,Bisogno G,Dall'Igna P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BRAF V600E missense mutation is known to be present in a subset of central nervous system tumors. We report a patient with a BRAF V600E mutated pilomyxoid astrocytoma who failed multiple conventional chemotherapy regimens. Treatment with vemurafenib, a molecularly targeted therapy against the mutant BRAF V600E kin...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Skrypek M,Foreman N,Guillaume D,Moertel C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this single-center observational study was to determine the clinical and hematologic responses to intravenous ferric carboxymaltose (FCM) in a cohort of pediatric patients with poor response to oral iron therapy. The occurrence of adverse events was systematically recorded for up to 96 hours ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Ozsahin H,Schaeppi M,Bernimoulin M,Allard M,Guidard C,van den Ouweland F

更新日期：2020-10-01 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