Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Neuroblastoma

Questions discussed in this category

How would you approach the prevention of irinotecan-induced diarrhea in a patient who previously experienced a diffuse rash with cefixime?

What alternatives to cephalosporins would you consider? Do you consider allergy testing?

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Would use of proton radiation versus photon radiation in neuroblastoma patients post autologous stem cell transplant reduce the risk of transplant associated-TMA?

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What is the choice of treatment for a teenager with low risk neuroblastoma s/p resection?

Observe versus adjuvant chemotherapy?

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What modality (urine catecholamines, PET, MIBG) is the most sensitive for evaluation of treatment response in a patient with high-risk neuroblastoma?

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Would you use autologous hematopoietic stem cells collected from a HR neuroblastoma patient found to be COVID positive after harvest?

Both the patient's nasopharyngeal swab and stem cells themselves resulted COVID positive post-harvesting.

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017-08-01

Revisions to the International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria: A Consensus Statement From the National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Planning Meeting.

Lancet Haematol, 2021 Feb 01

Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation from SARS-CoV-2 positive donors.

Transfusion, 2020 May 27

SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic and symptomatic patients and risk for transfusion transmission.

Vox Sang, 2020 Apr 21

Post-donation COVID-19 identification in blood donors.

Lancet, 2020 Feb 12

Clinical characteristics and intrauterine vertical transmission potential of COVID-19 infection in nine pregnant women: a retrospective review of medical records.

Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2019 Jun 12

Risk Factors for Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy after Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplant in High-Risk Neuroblastoma.

International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 Aug 16

Endothelial Cell Response to Combined Photon or Proton Irradiation with Doxorubicin.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2012-05-20

Outcome after surgery alone or with restricted use of chemotherapy for patients with low-risk neuroblastoma: results of Children's Oncology Group study P9641.

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Jul 28

Revised Neuroblastoma Risk Classification System: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group.

J Clin Oncol, 2020 Sep 09

Age Dependency of the Prognostic Impact of Tumor Genomics in Localized Resectable -Nonamplified Neuroblastomas. Report From the SIOPEN Biology Group on the LNESG Trials and a COG Validation Group.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2001 Aug

Clinical pharmacokinetics and metabolism of irinotecan (CPT-11).

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