Pediatric Oncology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chan, Ka Wah (Editor), Raney, R. Beverly (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: M.D. Anderson Cancer Care Series ; 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.

Innovative research conducted over the past 4 decades has resulted in important advances in the clinical management of cancer in children and adolescents. Overall, the 5-year survival rate for all childhood cancers is 70%. The Pediatric Oncology faculty at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who in 2004 a...

Table of Contents:

• Acute Leukemia
• Hodgkin Lymphoma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
• Brain Tumors: Diagnosis, Surgery and Radiotherapy, and Supportive Care
• Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy and Investigational Therapy
• Wilms’ Tumor
• Neuroblastoma
• Soft-Tissue Tumors
• Osteosarcoma
• Ewing’s Sarcoma
• Retinoblastoma
• Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
• Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
• Melanoma
• Novel Therapeutic Approaches
• Supportive Care: Myelosuppression
• Supportive Care: Symptom Control
• Behavioral Medicine in Cancer Care
• The Adolescent and Young Adult Program.