abstract：BACKGROUND:The goals of this study included: (1) Identification of factors prognostic for event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS), and (2) Definition of risk groups for risk adapted therapy in children with Hodgkin disease (HD). PROCEDURE:From 1991 to 2003, 69 children with newly diagnosed, untreated biops...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Oguz A,Karadeniz C,Okur FV,Citak EC,Pinarli FG,Bora H,Akyurek N

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hallmark of sickle cell disease (SCD) is recurrent, painful vaso-occlusive episodes (VOC) and is the most common reason for hospitalization in SCD patients. Narcotics, particularly morphine, along with fluid hydration are standard treatments for painful episodes but have been associated with the developm...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Buchanan ID,Woodward M,Reed GW

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival rates for patients with bone tumors have increased dramatically over the past few decades. Unfortunately, many patients face functional limitations resulting from disease management, but there is little evidence regarding physical functioning in adolescents with bone tumors. This lack is largely due...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Pakulis PJ,Young NL,Davis AM

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary epithelial lung malignancies are rare in childhood and adolescence. We reviewed the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center experience with these tumors to better understand their histology, time to diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. PROCEDURE:A retrospective review was performed on all patients 21 y...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Lal DR,Clark I,Shalkow J,Downey RJ,Shorter NA,Klimstra DS,La Quaglia MP

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histology after intensive induction chemotherapy is expected to become a beacon indicating when and how extensively radical surgery and lymph node dissection should be performed in advanced neuroblastoma. A thorough histologic review of surgical specimens was undertaken. PROCEDURE:All specimens from 34 pati...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Tsuchida Y,Miyauchi J,Kuroiwa M,Suzuki N,Sakamoto J,Suzuki M,Shitara T

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteopathy is one of the common initial symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in children and adolescents, but multiple osteolysis accompanied by hypercalcemia is rarely observed. PROCEDURE:We treated a 14-year-old female who had multiple osteolytic lesions and hypercalcemia at initial onset of ALL. ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Shimonodan H,Nagayama J,Nagatoshi Y,Hatanaka M,Takada A,Iguchi H,Oda Y,Okamura J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia and autoimmune hemolytic anemia (Evans syndrome) with the presence of both warm and cold autoantibodies (mixed type) are rare in the pediatric age group. This condition may be associated with other autoimmune disorders and is notoriously difficult to treat. This case describes an adolescent male who p...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Jubinsky PT,Rashid N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion(I)/deletion(D) polymorphism influences the outcome of a number of cardiovascular diseases. ACE I/D polymorphism was investigated by PCR in 207 pediatric cancer patients and 144 controls. ACE I/D distribution of patients and controls was similar. The frequency of the D...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bárdi E,Jenei C,Kiss C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High dose acetaminophen (HDAC) with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been effective in adults with advanced malignancies. We report HDAC with NAC in a child with progressive hepatoblastoma, confirmed at biopsy of an unresectable hepatic mass. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) increased despite four courses of doxorubicin and one cour...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kobrinsky NL,Sjolander DE,Goldenberg JA,Ortmeier TC

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:Malignant melanoma is rare in childhood and has never been reported to cause pancytopenia due to bone marrow metastases in a child. We report a 3-year-old boy with a large congenital melanocytic nevus who presented with bone pain and pancytopenia due to diffuse bone and bone marrow infiltration with metastatic melanom...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Spiller SE,Hawkins DS,Finn LS,Sze RW,Sybert V

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old boy in third remission of an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia developed infection of lung and paranasal sinuses with Aspergillus flavus in neutropenia. Because of the high risk of leukaemia-relapse bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from a matched unrelated donor was carried out despite invasive pulmonary as...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Schuster F,Moelter C,Schmid I,Graubner UB,Kammer B,Belohradsky BH,Führer M

更新日期：2005-06-15 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:Neuroblastoma (NB) is cytogenetically characterized by a number of non-random events. However, knowledge is limited concerning the timing of occurrence and inter-action of many of these events. METHODS:Karyotypic patterns were obtained from a study group of 49 NB tumors that had been analyzed by conventiona...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Betts DR,Cohen N,Leibundgut KE,Kühne T,Caflisch U,Greiner J,Traktenbrot L,Niggli FK

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children and adolescents with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and mature B-cell leukemia (B-ALL) have an excellent prognosis with contemporary chemotherapy stratified according to the histologic subtype and clinical stage of disease. However, a small subset of patients does not respond to front-line therapy or su...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Attarbaschi A,Dworzak M,Steiner M,Urban C,Fink FM,Reiter A,Gadner H,Mann G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop an objective tool for assessing disease activity in patients with Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH). METHOD:Scoring system was developed and applied to a database containing information on 612 patients. RESULTS:At diagnosis, the score distribution was highly asymmetrical: the score was between ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Donadieu J,Piguet C,Bernard F,Barkaoui M,Ouache M,Bertrand Y,Ibrahim H,Emile JF,Hermine O,Tazi A,Genereau T,Thomas C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult patients, amifostine appears to ameliorate cisplatin-related nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity. We assessed the safety and efficacy of amifostine in 11 children with newly diagnosed medulloblastoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor treated with radiotherapy and vincristine, lomustine, and cisplatin. Amifostine was...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Fisher MJ,Lange BJ,Needle MN,Janss AJ,Shu HK,Adamson PC,Phillips PC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Better predictors of outcome would allow improved risk-adapted therapy for pediatric nonmetastatic osteosarcoma of the extremity. We investigated the predictive value of MR imaging-based measures of absolute and relative tumor size and volume at the time of diagnosis. We also assessed the relation of tumor s...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Kaste SC,Liu T,Billups CA,Daw NC,Pratt CB,Meyer WH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report a 13-year-old male with Diamond Blackfan anemia and short stature. He had a normal biochemical response to growth hormone (GH) stimulation, but his bone age was delayed, his insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) was low, and he had a poor growth velocity. He was started on daily GH injections. METH...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Scott EG,Haider A,Hord J

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:To investigate the incidence, clinical characteristics and survival of malignant tumours of the gastrointestinal tract in children in the West Midlands in Britain over a 44-year span time, to identify any change over this period and to compare the data with the world literature. PROCEDURE:Retrospective popu...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Hameed R,Parkes S,Davies P,Morland BJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subspecialty-specific normative values for clinical productivity of practicing pediatric hematologist/oncologists have not been well established. This information could be a useful adjunct in administrative decision-making in areas such as necessary levels of physician staffing and development of compensatio...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Griffin TC,Hutter JJ,Johnson KK,Moscow JA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Degenerative-like neuro-Langerhans cell histiocytosis (DN-LCH) is a rare complication of LCH marked by progressive cerebellar ataxia. No treatment has so far been shown to slow this progression. PROCEDURE:All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) was administered orally at a dose of 45 mg/m(2) daily for 6 weeks and th...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Idbaih A,Donadieu J,Barthez MA,Geissmann F,Bertrand Y,Hermine O,Brugières L,Genereau T,Thomas C,Hoang-Xuan K

更新日期：2004-07-01 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:Tumor cells frequently contaminate autologous stem cell products in a variety of malignancies, but their clinical significance remains controversial. We retrospectively monitored tumor contamination in stem cell harvests from patients with Ewing family of tumors (EFT) all harboring the specific translocation...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Yaniv I,Cohen IJ,Stein J,Zilberstein J,Liberzon E,Atlas O,Grunshpan A,Sverdlov Y,Ash S,Zaizov R,Avigad S

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Patients with cancer who receive intensive chemotherapeutic regimens are subject to profound immunosuppression and are susceptible to an extended array of pathogens. PROCEDURE:The infectious causes of symptomatic gastroenteritis as evidenced by diarrhea +/- fever, vomiting, and abdominal colic in children f...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： El-Mahallawy HA,El-Din NH,Salah F,El-Arousy M,El-Naga SA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-concept was compared between adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and sibling controls. Adult survivor subgroups at greatest risk for negative self-concept were identified. PROCEDURE:Survivors (n = 578) aged > or =18 years, treated before age 20 years on Children's Cancer Gro...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Seitzman RL,Glover DA,Meadows AT,Mills JL,Nicholson HS,Robison LL,Byrne J,Zeltzer LK

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Prophylactic use of cranial radiation therapy (CRT) in young children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is associated with significant long-term morbidity. Therefore, current treatment protocols for pediatric B-precursor ALL have abandoned prophylactic CRT in favor of intrathecal chemotherapy, combined...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Nathan PC,Maze R,Spiegler B,Greenberg ML,Weitzman S,Hitzler JK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the maximum-tolerated duration and dose-limiting toxicity of a daily schedule of orally administered cyclophosphamide and topotecan in pediatric patients with recurrent or refractory malignant solid tumors. METHODS:Patients received oral cyclophosphamide (50 mg/m2/dose) in the morning followed ...

journal_title：Pediatric blood & cancer

authors： Bowers DC,Aquino VM,Leavey PJ,Bash RO,Journeycake JM,Tomlinson G,Mulne AF,Haynes HJ,Winick NJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00