abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to evaluate a reduced irradiation dose strategy for newly diagnosed primary central nervous system (CNS) germinomas. METHODS:Twenty patients with histologically diagnosed localized pure germinoma (n = 19) or germinoma with a mature teratoma component (n = 1) received four cycle...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Khatua S,Dhall G,O'Neil S,Jubran R,Villablanca JG,Marachelian A,Nastia A,Lavey R,Olch AJ,Gonzalez I,Gilles F,Nelson M,Panigrahy A,McComb G,Krieger M,Fan J,Sposto R,Finlay JL

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since there is no validated assay to monitor disease in children with neuroblastoma (NB), we tested whether NB specific cell-free RNA could be detected in their plasma samples. Moreover, with the aim of reducing patients' discomfort, we compared this assay to a recently standardized procedure that uses a lar...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Corrias MV,Pistorio A,Cangemi G,Tripodi G,Carlini B,Scaruffi P,Fardin P,Garaventa A,Pistoia V,Haupt R

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditionally, physicians have believed that limb-salvage surgery has functional and cosmetic advantages over amputation, yet the literature is equivocal. Therefore, we sought to compare the psychosocial and functional outcomes in osteosarcoma survivors after limb-salvage surgery and amputation. We hypothesi...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Robert RS,Ottaviani G,Huh WW,Palla S,Jaffe N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to compare the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents after malignant bone tumor surgery of the leg with healthy controls. PROCEDURE:Patients between 8 and 25 years old were cross-sectional recruited. Patients under 16 years of age received the TNO (Netherlands O...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

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

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Specialized pediatric cancer centers (PCCs) are thought to be essential to obtain state-of-the-art care for children and adolescents. We determined the proportion of childhood cancer patients not treated in a PCC, and described their characteristics and place of treatment. PROCEDURE:The Swiss Childhood Canc...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Adam M,von der Weid N,Michel G,Zwahlen M,Lutz JM,Probst-Hensch N,Niggli F,Kuehni C,Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group (SPOG).,Swiss Association of Cancer Registries (ASRT).

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:A rare case of primary intestinal T-cell lymphoma (ITL) of an 8-year-old boy is reported. Medium- to large-sized tumor cells were betaF1+, CD3+, CD8+. TIA-1+, but CD4-, CD5-, CD30-, CD56-, CD20-, CD79a-, TdT-, consistent with an intraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL) origin. They showed monoclonal rearrangement of the T-cel...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Friedrich C,Schrum J,Chott A,Janka-Schaub G,Kabisch H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review of the experience of high dose chemotherapy in patients with recurrent or refractory intracranial germ cell tumor confirms that sustained tumor control can be achieved with this modality both in germinoma and non-germinomatous germ cell tumors. Data from cooperative groups in Europe and North America sugge...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bouffet E

更新日期：2010-04-01 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:Hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) is one of the most serious complications in stem cell transplantation (SCT). Although plasma protein C activity decreases in VOD after SCT, the timeframe of plasma protein C activity decreases during SCT is not known. PROCEDURE:We examined levels of plasma protein C seri...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Iguchi A,Kobayashi R,Kaneda M,Kobayashi K

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of central nervous system (CNS) germ cell tumors (GCT) remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate efficacy of a chemotherapy only strategy, with less morbidity, when compared to regimens with irradiation. METHODS:Between January 2001 and December 2004 newly diagnosed p...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： da Silva NS,Cappellano AM,Diez B,Cavalheiro S,Gardner S,Wisoff J,Kellie S,Parker R,Garvin J,Finlay J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old male with chronic granulomatous disease, who was transplanted with bone marrow and exhibited increasing mixed chimerism, subsequently received two donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI). Two weeks after the second DLI, the patient developed acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and progressive pancytopenia tha...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kato I,Umeda K,Awaya T,Yui Y,Niwa A,Fujino H,Matsubara H,Watanabe K,Heike T,Adachi N,Endo F,Mizukami T,Nunoi H,Nakahata T,Adachi S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of the laboratory benefits of hydroxyurea and its clinical efficacy in reducing acute vaso-occlusive events in adults and children with sickle cell anemia has accumulated for more than 15 years. A definitive clinical trial showing that hydroxyurea can also prevent organ damage might support widespread use of ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Thompson BW,Miller ST,Rogers ZR,Rees RC,Ware RE,Waclawiw MA,Iyer RV,Casella JF,Luchtman-Jones L,Rana S,Thornburg CD,Kalpatthi RV,Barredo JC,Brown RC,Sarnaik S,Howard TH,Luck L,Wang WC

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the safety, efficacy, and PK profile of intravenous busulfan (Bu) in the context of a Bu and cyclophosphamide (IVBuCy) preparative regimen in children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). METHODS:Twenty-four children were enrolled in an open-label, multicenter tria...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Wall DA,Chan KW,Nieder ML,Hayashi RJ,Yeager AM,Kadota R,Przepiorka D,Mezzi K,Kletzel M,Pediatric Blood, Marrow Transplant Consortium.

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABT-751, an orally bioavailable sulfonamide, binds beta-tubulin to inhibit microtubule polymerization. We described response and event-free survival (EFS) in children with neuroblastoma and other solid tumors receiving ABT-751, assessed in vitro cytotoxicity of ABT-751 and evaluated the effect of ABT-751 on ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Meany HJ,Sackett DL,Maris JM,Ward Y,Krivoshik A,Cohn SL,Steinberg SM,Balis FM,Fox E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the risk of bacteremia in a cohort of outpatient febrile nonneutropenic pediatric oncology patients and to assess clinical characteristics that may influence decisions regarding empiric antibiotic therapy. PROCEDURE:A single institution retrospective cohort study was performed of outp...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kelly MJ,Vivier PM,Panken TM,Schwartz CL

更新日期：2010-01-01 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:Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who fail to achieve complete remission (CR) after induction therapy (induction failure: IF) have a poor prognosis; however, there have been few prospective studies in patients with IF. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between April 1997 and March 2005, 27 of 1,237 leukem...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Suzuki N,Yumura-Yagi K,Yoshida M,Hara J,Nishimura S,Kudoh T,Tawa A,Usami I,Tanizawa A,Hori H,Ito Y,Miyaji R,Oda M,Kato K,Hamamoto K,Osugi Y,Hashii Y,Nakahata T,Horibe K,Japan Association of Childhood Leukemia Study

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian tumors have a low incidence in childhood, accounting for 1% of malignancies within the ages of 0-17 years. Small cell carcinoma of the ovary is a rare histology and historically has a poor prognosis. We report a case of an 11-year-old female diagnosed with small cell carcinoma of the ovary and hypercalcemia (S...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Martinez-Borges AR,Petty JK,Hurt G,Stribling JT,Press JZ,Castellino SM

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite advances in therapy, outcome in many high-grade pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors remains poor. The focus of neuro-oncology research has thus turned towards identifying novel therapeutic targets. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP1) is a DNA repair protein that has been studied in a vari...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Barton VN,Donson AM,Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK,Gore L,Liu AK,Foreman NK

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ispinesib is a highly specific inhibitor of kinesin spindle protein (KSP, HsEg5), a mitotic kinesin required for separation of the spindle poles. Here we report the activity of ispinesib against the in vitro and in vivo panels of the Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program (PPTP). PROCEDURES:Ispinesib was tes...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Carol H,Lock R,Houghton PJ,Morton CL,Kolb EA,Gorlick R,Reynolds CP,Maris JM,Keir ST,Billups CA,Smith MA

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4(3/4)-year-old male with Down syndrome (DS) presented with unsteady gait and fatigue. Neuroimaging revealed a cerebellar mass with concomitant obstructive hydrocephalus and additional metastatic lesions. He was successfully treated and is still in complete remission 5 years from diagnosis. The present case illustra...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Benesch M,Moser A,Sovinz P,Lackner H,Schwinger W,Eder H,Urban C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatoblastoma is a rare malignancy of childhood. The scarcity of adequate cell models has limited our understanding of this tumor. Here we describe and characterize a new human liver tumor cell line, Hep293TT, derived from an aggressive childhood hepatoblastoma. PROCEDURES:Hep293TT cells were established u...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chen TT,Rakheja D,Hung JY,Hornsby PJ,Tabaczewski P,Malogolowkin M,Feusner J,Miskevich F,Schultz R,Tomlinson GE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the increasing cure rates for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), patients who relapse continue to have poor prognosis. The Children's Oncology Group (COG) conducted a limited institution Phase II trial of Campath-1H, a monoclonal antibody that targets CD52 on leukemic cells, in childre...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Angiolillo AL,Yu AL,Reaman G,Ingle AM,Secola R,Adamson PC

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous recent reports have described the use of recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) in non-hemophilia bleeding situations for achievement of hemostasis. However, its use in clinical situations other than hemophilia patients with inhibitors has been complicated by some reports of thrombotic events. rFVIIa has ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Puetz J,Darling G,Brabec P,Blatny J,Mathew P

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Osteoporosis and osteopenia are long-term side effects of bone marrow transplant (BMT). The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of bone mineral density (BMD) abnormalities in pediatric patients prior to BMT. Forty-four pediatric patients were evaluated with DEXA scans. The average Z-score was -0.37. ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Klopfenstein KJ,Clayton J,Rosselet R,Kerlin B,Termuhlen A,Gross T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies of children with homozygous sickle cell anemia (SCA) show impaired growth and maturation. The correlation of this suboptimal growth with metabolic and hematological factors during puberty is poorly understood. PROCEDURE:We studied a group of pre-adolescent children with SCA (19 males, 14 fe...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Rhodes M,Akohoue SA,Shankar SM,Fleming I,Qi An A,Yu C,Acra S,Buchowski MS

更新日期：2009-10-01 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: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: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：:Acute splenic sequestration crisis (ASSC) is a hematological emergency in young children with sickle cell disease (SCD), characterized by worsening anemia and splenomegaly, usually with reticulocytosis and thrombocytopenia. Transient aplastic crisis (TAC) due to parvovirus B19 infection occurs in older children with S...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yates AM,Hankins JS,Mortier NA,Aygun B,Ware RE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although screening for familial retinoblastoma has been shown to be beneficial we suspected that such screening programs may be less than optimal in developing countries (DC). METHODS:Retrospective cohort study comparing patients with familial retinoblastoma from five centers in DC (Argentina, Brazil, Turke...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chantada GL,Dunkel IJ,Qaddoumi I,Antoneli CB,Totah A,Canturk S,Nawaiseh I,Fandiño A,Pífano I,Peksayar G,Ribeiro KB,Abramson DH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to evaluate oral health and dental anomalies in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and to compare results with those of a group of healthy children matched for sex and age. PROCEDURE:Fifty-six children treated for ALL and 56 healthy controls were examined for de...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Maciel JC,de Castro CG Jr,Brunetto AL,Di Leone LP,da Silveira HE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly young people survive cancer in childhood and as a result complications of its treatment are becoming more common and important. Premature ovarian failure is recognized as a complication of radiotherapy to a field that includes the pelvis and alkylating-agent-based chemotherapy. Young pre-pubertal girls ar...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Johnston RJ,Wallace WH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogonial stem cells open novel strategies for preservation of testicular tissue and fertility preservation in boys and men exposed to gonadotoxic therapies. This review provides an update on the physiology of spermatogonial stem cells in rodent and primate testes. Species-specific differences must be considered ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Schlatt S,Ehmcke J,Jahnukainen K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess glomerular and tubular renal function after HSCT in children in a prospective trial. METHODS:Renal function was assessed prospectively before HSCT (on day -10), on days +30, +100, and at least 6 months after transplantation in 34 patients (21 females/13 males) with a mean...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hazar V,Gungor O,Guven AG,Aydin F,Akbas H,Gungor F,Tezcan G,Akman S,Yesilipek A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an acute myeloid leukemia in a neonate whose mother was exposed to diethylstilboestrol in utero. The newborn presented with leukemia cutis, hemorrhagic skin lesions, hyperleucocytosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation. A bone marrow examination confirmed the diagnosis of acute monocytic leukemia ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Chantrain CF,Sauvage D,Brichard B,Dupont S,Poirel HA,Ameye G,De Weer A,Vandenberghe P,Detaille T,Anslot C,de Cléty SC,Vermylen C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilms tumor (WT) is the most common primary renal tumor in childhood. The occurrence of WT in patients with growth retardation, mental retardation and central nervous system abnormalities in association with premature chromatid separation (PCS) and mosaic variegated aneuploidy has been previously described in only 10 ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Sari N,Akyuz C,Aktas D,Gumruk F,Orhan D,Alikasifoglu M,Aydin B,Alanay Y,Buyukpamukcu M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During ALL chemotherapy, a 4-year-old patient presented with febrile neutropenia and abdominal pain. Ultrasound examinations were repeatedly normal. Computerized tomography on day 7 demonstrated appendicitis and multiple hepatic foci identified as mucormycosis (Absidia corymbifera). Successful outcome was achieved by ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Lüer S,Berger S,Diepold M,Duppenthaler A,von Gunten M,Mühlethaler K,Wolf R,Aebi C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00