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Original Source: Combination Chemotherapy Plus Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Children With Newly Diagnosed Neuroblastoma
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. Peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy followed by peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating children who have newly diagnosed...
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Acute leukemia occurs when a hematopoietic stem cell undergoes malignant transformation into a primitive, undifferentiated cell with abnormal longevity. These lymphocytes (acute lymphocytic leukemia...
When a patient has had a serious accident and lost a lot of blood, or has a blood disorder, their own blood can be replaced with blood that has been donated by other people. Because of the differe...
Substance Use in Children and Adolescents
The pancreas secretes a number of important hormones into the digestive tract and the blood stream. Cancers are most commonly exocrine than endocrine (neuroendocrine) tumors. Functional tumors secre...
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A new study has found that taking early and repeated white blood cell counts is critical in determining whether infants have pertussis and which of those children are at highest risk of death from the...
Intensified chemotherapy shows promise for children with very high risk form of leukemia
Young patients with an aggressive form of leukemia who are likely to relapse after chemotherapy treatment can significantly reduce those odds by receiving additional courses of chemotherapy, suggest t...
Chemotherapy's Side Effects May Be Dramatically Reduced In The Future
Researchers in Leuven (VIB/KU Leuven) have confirmed their hypothesis that normalizing blood vessels by blocking oxygen sensor PHD2 would make chemotherapy more effective. They also demonstrated for t...
Pediatric patients with B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are likely to relapse after chemotherapy treatment can reduce those odds by receiving additional courses of chemotherapy, according...
Updated guideline on the use of epoetin and darbepoetin in cancer patients
Patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer can often become anaemic as their red blood cell counts, and hence iron levels, fall. Besides the traditional approach of offering blood transfusion in orde...
Bartholomew’s BioNotes: Take out my liver for chemotherapy please, temporarily that is.
One of the key problems with fighting cancer metastases in the liver is giving enough chemotherapy to fight the cancer without damaging the other parts of the body. Large doses of chemotherapy can def...
Scientists Build A Synthetic Peptide That Overcomes Cancer Cells' Survival Defenses
Scientists at the Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center have developed an anti-cancer peptide that overcomes the stubborn resistance to chemotherapy and radiation often encountered in certain...
Researchers discover way to save blood from ravages of chemo treatment
(Medical Xpress)—Chemotherapy kills blood cells as well as cancer cells, often with fatal results. Now Yale stem cell researchers have identified a method they hope one day will help cancer patients...
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Arthritic presentation of childhood malignancy: beware of normal blood counts.
Some children with malignancy (e.g. acute lymphoblastic leukemia) who initially present with musculoskeletal complaints may be misdiagnosed as having a rheumatological disorder. In the literature, imp...
Blood eosinophil counts rarely reflect airway eosinophilia in children with severe asthma.
BACKGROUND: The inflammatory phenotypes of severe asthma in adults may be reflected in peripheral blood. If this were true in children with severe therapy-resistant asthma (STRA), invasive tests could...
Absolute and percent CD4+ T-cell enumeration by flow cytometry using capillary blood.
CD4+ T-cell counting is usually performed on whole blood obtained from standard venipuncture. Venipuncture requires expertise, results in discomfort and generates biological waste. Capillary blood cou...
BACKGROUND: Clozapine is reserved for overcoming treatment resistance in schizophrenia. Malignancy is common in schizophrenia; however, there is limited evidence available on continuing clozapine with...
Clinical characteristics of eosinophilic and noneosinophilic asthma in children.
AIM: Asthma is a heterogeneous and complex chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. Asthma can be classified as eosinophilic asthma (EA) or noneosinophilic asthma (NEA). We investigated whether ch...
