Hematologic Supportive Care for Children with Cancer
Hematologic Supportive Care for Children with Cancer Jennifer Andrews Susan A. Galel Wendy Wong Bertil Glader Transfusion therapy is a key component of supportive care of children with cancer and…
Oncologic Emergencies
Oncologic Emergencies Jason L. Freedman Susan R. Rheingold Michael J. Fisher Emergencies can occur at any time during a child’s course of care for cancer. Some emergencies are the initial…
Rare Pediatric Tumors
Rare Pediatric Tumors Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo Wayne L. Furman Alberto S. Pappo INTRODUCTION The Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health defines rare diseases as those diseases having…
Endocrine Tumors
Endocrine Tumors Steven G. Waguespack Winston W. Huh Andrew J. Bauer INTRODUCTION Endocrine tumors comprise a variety of benign and malignant neoplasms that arise from the endocrine glands or neuroendocrine…
Germ Cell Tumors
Germ Cell Tumors A. Lindsay Frazier Thomas A. Olson Dominik T. Schneider Elizabeth J. Perlman James F. Amatruda Gonadal and extragonadal germ cell tumors (GCTs) are infrequent in childhood, occurring…
Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma Richard Gorlick Katherine Janeway Neyssa Marina INTRODUCTION Osteosarcoma is often compared and contrasted with Ewing sarcoma as pediatric tumors that arise in bone—but beyond that, they do not have…
Ewing Sarcoma
Ewing Sarcoma Douglas S. Hawkins Bernadette M. D. Brennan Tobias Bölling Darin J. Davidson Uta Dirksen Steven G. DuBois Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn Stephen L. Lessnick INTRODUCTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Ewing…
The Nonrhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas
The Nonrhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas Sheri L. Spunt Lynn Million Cheryl Coffin INTRODUCTION Although soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) account for fewer than 1% of all cancers in the general population,…
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma Leonard H. Wexler Stephen X. Skapek Lee J. Helman A malignant tumor of mesenchymal cell origin is called a sarcoma. Mesenchymal cells normally mature into skeletal muscle, smooth muscle,…
Neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma Garrett M. Brodeur Michael D. Hogarty Rochelle Bagatell Yael P. Mossé John M. Maris INTRODUCTION Few tumors have engendered as much fascination and frustration for clinicians and researchers as…
