Hodgkin’s Disease in Children Controversies and Current Practice
Where do you begin to look for a recent, authoritative article on the diagnosis or management of particular malignancy? The few general oncol ogy textbooks are generally out of date. Single papers in specialized journals are informative but seldom comprehensive; these are more often prelimin ary r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Cancer Treatment and Research
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Table of Contents:
- 16. Hodgkin’s disease in Indian children
- 17. Treatment of childhood Hodgkin’s disease with chemotherapy alone: experiences from the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
- 18. Pediatric Hodgkin’s disease: late results and toxicity—the Toronto experience
- 19. The Pediatric Oncology Group: studies in Hodgkin’s disease
- 20. Current practice in Hodgkin’s disease: the United Kingdom Children’s Cancer Study Group
- 21. Results of therapy for Hodgkin’s disease in childhood: the Argentine Group for Treatment of Acute Leukemia
- 22. The German cooperative therapy studies: an approach to minimize treatment modalities and invasive staging procedures
- 23. Hodgkin’s disease in children and adolescents: experiences from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
- 24. Results of therapy for Hodgkin’sdisease at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- I. Selected Topics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Evidence for a B-cell origin of the proliferating cells
- 3. Conclusions from Hodgkin-derived cell lines
- 4. The Sternberg-Reed cell: a cell-fusion product?
- 5. The immune derangement and strategies for immunotherapy
- 6. Prognostic factors including clinical markers
- 7. Circulating cells in Hodgkin’s disease
- 8. Current management and controversies: a surgeon’s view
- 9. Indications for staging laparotomy and partial splenectomy
- 10. Current management and controversies: the chemotherapist’s view
- 11. Current management and controversies: a radiotherapist’s view
- 12. Current management and controversies: the patient’s view
- 13. Salvage treatment for patients with multiply relapsed Hodgkin’s disease
- 14. Late effects of Hodgkin’s disease treatment in children
- 15. Areas of neglect and controversies in the dental care of children with Hodgkin’s disease
- II. Institutional Reports
- 25. Clinical investigations of children with Hodgkin’s disease at Stanford University Medical center: a preliminary overview using low-dose irradiation and alternating ABVD/MOPP chemotherapy
- III. Summary
- 26. Hodgkin’s disease monograph
- 27. Clinical overview of Hodgkin’s disease