Journal ArticleEJC Paediatric Oncology · December 1, 2024
Background: Response to induction chemotherapy has been shown to predict outcome in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma (HR-NB), with those achieving a complete response (CR) having superior outcomes. Methods: We evaluated whether conventional prognostic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · August 2024
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor diagnosed in children. This inaugural version of the NCCN Guidelines for Neuroblastoma provides recommendations for the diagnosis, risk classification, and treatment of neuroblastoma. The informatio ...
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Journal ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · April 2023
PurposePatients ≥18 months of age with International Neuroblastoma Staging System (INSS) stage 3 unfavorable histology (UH), MYCN-nonamplified (MYCN-NA) tumors have favorable survival rates compared with other high-risk neuroblastoma populations. ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Clin Cancer Inform · October 2021
PURPOSE: Cardiovascular disease is a significant cause of late morbidity and mortality in survivors of childhood cancer. Clinical informatics tools could enhance provider adherence to echocardiogram guidelines for early detection of late-onset cardiomyopat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Hematol Oncol · August 1, 2021
Malignant ectomesenchymoma (MEM) is a rare multiphenotypic tumor comprised of mesenchymal and neuroectodermal components. MEM is typically diagnosed in infants and younger children and outcomes are variable. The current approach for treating MEM includes t ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · June 2021
BACKGROUND: This retrospective study harnessed an institutional cancer registry to construct a childhood cancer survivorship cohort, integrate electronic health record (EHR) and geospatial data to stratify survivors based on late-effect risk, analyze follo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · August 20, 2020
PURPOSE: A primary objective of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) ANBL0532 phase III study was to assess the effect of increasing local dose of radiation to a residual primary tumor on the cumulative incidence of local progression (CILP) in patients with ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · August 27, 2019
IMPORTANCE: Induction chemotherapy followed by high-dose therapy with autologous stem cell transplant and subsequent antidisialoganglioside antibody immunotherapy is standard of care for patients with high-risk neuroblastoma, but survival rate among these ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · July 2019
PURPOSE: Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid pediatric malignancy, with poor outcomes in high-risk disease. Standard treatment approaches employ an increasing array of aggressive multimodal therapies, of which local control with surgery and ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · July 2019
BACKGROUND: Paediatric low-grade glioma is the most common CNS tumour of childhood. Although overall survival is good, disease often recurs. No single universally accepted treatment exists for these patients; however, standard cytotoxic chemotherapies are ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · May 2019
BACKGROUND: Induction chemotherapy plays an important role in the management of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. Predictors of response to induction therapy are largely lacking. We sought to describe clinical and biological features associated with i ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Transplant · December 2018
PURPOSE: Improvement in outcomes of LT for pediatric HB and HCC has been reported in small series. We analyzed national outcomes and changes in donor, recipient, and perioperative factors over time that may contribute to survival differences. METHODS: The ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Cancer Inst · October 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Neuroblastoma is characterized by substantial clinical heterogeneity. Despite intensive treatment, the survival rates of high-risk neuroblastoma patients are still disappointingly low. Somatic chromosomal copy number aberrations have been shown ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nucl Med · March 2018
A semiquantitative 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) scoring method (the Curie score, or CS) was previously examined in the Children's Oncology Group (COG) high-risk neuroblastoma trial, COG A3973, with a postinduction CS of more than 2 being associ ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging · February 2018
BACKGROUND: Validation of the prognostic value of the SIOPEN mIBG skeletal scoring system in two independent stage 4, mIBG avid, high-risk neuroblastoma populations. RESULTS: The semi-quantitative SIOPEN score evaluates skeletal meta-iodobenzylguanidine (m ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · November 2017
BACKGROUND: Prior studies suggest that neuroblastomas that do not accumulate metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) on diagnostic imaging (MIBG non-avid) may have more favorable features compared with MIBG avid tumors. We compared clinical features, biologic featu ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2017
10504 Background: A greater understanding of the Ras-MAP kinase-signaling pathway in pediatric low-grade glioma (LGG) paired with the availability of potent selective inhibitors has enhanced the ability to target this pathway wit ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · January 10, 2017
Purpose This analysis of patients in the Children's Oncology Group A3973 study evaluated the impact of extent of primary tumor resection on local progression and survival and assessed concordance between clinical and central imaging review-based assessment ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · June 20, 2016
LBA3 Background: ASCT improves event-free survival (EFS) for HR-NB. Pilot studies suggest that intensification of myeloablative therapy using tandem ASCT further improves outcome for HR-NB. We conducted a multicenter RCT comparin ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging · March 2016
PURPOSE: Vesicular monoamine transporters 1 and 2 (VMAT1 and VMAT2) are thought to mediate MIBG uptake in adult neuroendocrine tumors. In neuroblastoma, the norepinephrine transporter (NET) has been investigated as the principal MIBG uptake protein, though ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · September 2015
BACKGROUND: The value of gross total resection (GTR) for children with high-risk neuroblastoma (NB) is controversial. We hypothesized that patients undergoing GTR would demonstrate improved overall survival (OS) compared those having
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · September 2015
Analysis of data from large administrative databases and patient registries is increasingly being used to study childhood cancer care, although the value of these data sources remains unclear to many clinicians. Interpretation of large databases requires a ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging · February 2015
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to find clinically relevant MIBG-avid metastatic patterns in patients with newly diagnosed stage 4 neuroblastoma. METHODS: Diagnostic (123)I-MIBG scans from 249 patients (123 from a European and 126 from the COG cohort) w ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging · February 1, 2015
Purpose: The aim of this study was to find clinically relevant MIBG-avid metastatic patterns in patients with newly diagnosed stage 4 neuroblastoma. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 20, 2014
PURPOSE: Platinum-based therapy is the mainstay for management of high-risk neuroblastoma. Prevalence of platinum-related ototoxicity has ranged from 13% to 95% in previous reports; variability is attributable to small samples and disparate grading scales. ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · September 2013
BACKGROUND: Myeloablative chemoradiotherapy and immunomagnetically purged autologous bone marrow transplantation has been shown to improve outcome for patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. Currently, peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) are infused after my ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nucl Med · April 2013
UNLABELLED: Radiolabeled metaiodobenzylguanidine (mIBG) is a highly sensitive and specific marker for detecting neuroblastoma. A semiquantitative mIBG score (Curie score [CS]) was assessed for utility as a prognostic indicator for a cohort of patients with ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · October 1, 2012
PURPOSE: Children diagnosed at age ≥ 18 months with metastatic MYCN-nonamplified neuroblastoma (NBL-NA) are at high risk for disease relapse, whereas those diagnosed at age < 18 months are nearly always cured. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Hematol Oncol · October 2011
Bone marrow necrosis is a rare histopathology finding with the majority of cases occurring in the setting of a hematologic malignancy. This article reports a case of diffuse marrow necrosis in a child secondary to acute lymphoblastic leukemia and summarize ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · July 1, 2011
BACKGROUND: ¹²³I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scans are preferable to ¹³¹I-MIBG for neuroblastoma imaging as they deliver less patient radiation yet have greater sensitivity in disease detection. Both ¹²³I-MIBG and ¹³¹I-MIBG scans were used for disease a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2011
9515 Background: Management of high-risk neuroblastoma relies on potentially ototoxic platinum-based therapy. In previous reports, the proportion of children with ototoxicity has ranged from 20-90%, with variability likely due to small samples and disparat ...
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Journal ArticleN Engl J Med · September 30, 2010
BACKGROUND: Preclinical and preliminary clinical data indicate that ch14.18, a monoclonal antibody against the tumor-associated disialoganglioside GD2, has activity against neuroblastoma and that such activity is enhanced when ch14.18 is combined with gran ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · April 2010
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BACKGROUND: Poor outcome in Stage 4 neuroblastoma may be improved with increased dose intensity of therapy. We investigated the feasibility of sequential collection and infusion of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs) as hematopoietic support for non-myeloa ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2008
10011 Background: ASCT improves outcome for HR-NB, but potential risk of reinfusion of viable tumor in PBSC could affect event-free survival (EFS). We assessed the impact of ASCT with immunomagnetic purging of PBSC, compared to UP product, on EFS, PBSC tum ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Gene Ther · September 2006
Administration of chemotherapy is often limited by myelosuppression. Expression of drug-resistance genes in hematopoietic cells has been proposed as a means to decrease the toxicity of cytotoxic agents. In this pilot study, we utilized a retroviral vector ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · June 2006
OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility, toxicities, and the response rate (RR) of a dose intensive, submyeloablative, induction chemotherapy protocol termed EPiC (etoposide, carboplatin, and intensive cyclophosphamide) utilizing sequential peripheral bloo ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Haematol · January 2005
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Thrombocytopenia remains the major dose-limiting toxicity of myelosuppressive chemotherapy in children with solid tumours. Recombinant human interleukin-11 (rhIL-11) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as treatment for adults with solid t ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · September 15, 2002
BACKGROUND: To increase the dose intensity (DI) of chemotherapy for pediatric patients with metastatic sarcomas, including the Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) and rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), the authors tested the feasibility of an intensive regimen supp ...
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Journal ArticleBlood · November 15, 2001
A potential therapeutic option for patients with Fanconi anemia is collection of peripheral blood stem cells prior to the development of severe pancytopenia. These hematopoietic cells potentially could be infused when symptomatic bone marrow failure develo ...
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Journal ArticleBlood · May 15, 2001
Standard therapy in the United States for malignancy-associated hyperuricemia consists of hydration, alkalinization, and allopurinol. Urate oxidase catalyzes the enzymatic oxidation of uric acid to a 5 times increased urine soluble product, allantoin. Rasb ...
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Journal ArticleBone Marrow Transplant · December 2000
We describe collection and purification of peripheral blood CD34+ cells from volunteer, normal donors and allogeneic stem cell donors. A total of 98 aphereses were performed on 68 volunteer donors using peripheral venous access. The mean number of nucleate ...
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Journal ArticleClinical Infectious Diseases · 2000
In this double-blind study to compare safety of 2 lipid formulations of amphotericin B, neutropenic patients with unresolved fever after 3 days of antibacterial therapy were randomized (1:1:1) to receive amphotericin B lipid complex (ABLC) at a dose of 5 m ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Hematol Oncol · 1999
PURPOSE: The in vitro and in vivo efficacy of a single dose of asparaginase in children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia and the correlation between in vitro and in vivo antileukemic response and long-term outcome were prospectively evalua ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Hematol Oncol · 1998
PURPOSE: An autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell (APBPC) transplant in an anephric child with multiply recurrent Wilms tumor using a conditioning regimen of high dose chemotherapy in conjunction with hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis is desc ...
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Journal ArticleExperimental Hematology · December 1, 1997
RhIL-11 has demonstrated in phase II adult trials to reduce PLT tranfusions (TX) at the recommended dose of 50 ug/kg/d.(Isaacs et al Blood 88:448a, 1996 and Tepler et al Blood 87:3607,1996) We are reporting a multi-center phase I/II trial of rhIL-11 + G-CS ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Hematol Oncol · 1997
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PURPOSE: To determine the hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic toxicity of a novel dose-intensive chemotherapy regimen for the treatment of children with relapsed solid tumors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The time to hematopoietic recovery and toxicity experienced ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · March 1996
PURPOSE: We sought to identify factors assessable at the time of admission for fever and neutropenia that predict bacteremia in children with cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred fifteen consecutive episodes of fever and absolute neutrophil count (ANC ...
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Journal ArticleNurs Res · 1996
The purpose of this study was to explore, using grounded theory, the process experienced by parents who are dealing with the first recurrence of cancer in their child. The sample of 33 guardians (27 mothers, 1 grandmother, and 5 fathers) was drawn from thr ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Pediatr Surg · February 1993
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Investigation in cellular and molecular genetics has yielded a wealth of new information regarding the role of genetic alterations in the etiology of childhood cancer. The recent advancement of molecular biologic techniques has allowed researchers to bridg ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · January 1993
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PURPOSE: A nonrandomized, single-arm trial was conducted to assess the efficacy of multimodality therapy including intensive chemotherapy with multiple alkylating agents in the treatment of children with Evans stage III neuroblastoma older than 1 year at d ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · October 15, 1992
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BACKGROUND: Recent reports of secondary acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) occurring in children previously treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) prompted a review of patients with ALL treated at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute consortium (DFCI) be ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · July 1990
The human interleukin 3 (IL-3) promoter is comprised of several cis-acting DNA sequences that modulate T-cell expression of IL-3. These are located within 315 nucleotides upstream of the mRNA start site. Transient expression of reporter genes linked to ser ...
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Journal ArticleNucleic Acids Res · March 11, 1981
We have developed a procedure for selectively enriching a mRNA population for inducible sequences. Other than the induced mRNA species, the population of mRNA in control cells is approximately the same as the mRNA population in induced cells. Cytoplasmic m ...
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