Pediatric Cancer, Volume 4

Part I. Neuroblastoma

1. Pediatric Neuroblastoma: Use of Hypermethylation of Apoptotic Genes as a Prognostic Factor
Yania Yañez, Elena Grau, Adela Cañete, Victoria Castel

2.
MYCN Nonamplified Neuroblastoma: Detection of Tumor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Serum for Predicting Prognosis of Neuroblastoma
Shigeki Yagyu, Tomoko Iehara

3. Neuroblastoma: Role of MDM2 and SNP309 as Markers
Sara Cattelani, Giovanna Ferrari-Amorotti, Angela Rachele Soliera, Gloria Manzotti, Giuseppe Raschellà, Bruno Calabretta

4. Role of PI3K Inhibitors in Sensitizing Neuroblastoma Cells to Apoptosis
Simone Fulda

5. Regulation of Neuroblastoma Cell Differentiation by Retinoic Acid: Role of Alternative Splicing and micro-RNAs
Salvador Meseguer, Emilio J. Laserna, Juan Manuel Escamilla, Susana Masiá, Domingo Barettino

6. Neuroblastoma: Role of Activated Leukocyte Cell Adhesion Molecule
Maria Valeria Corrias, Michela Croce, Marina Fabbi

7. Neuroblastoma: Inhibition by Alu-Like RNA
Manuele Castelnuovo, Tullio Florio, Giorgio Dieci, Ranieri Cancedda, Aldo Pagano

8. Children with High Risk Neuroblastoma: Prophylactic and Therapeutic Treatment with Docosahexaenoic Acid
Helena Gleissman

Part II. Medulloblastoma

9. Overview of Treatment of Pediatric Medulloblastoma
Peter Hauser, Dezső Schuler, Miklos Garami

10. Event-Free Survival of Children with Average-Risk Medulloblastoma: Treatment with Craniospinal Radiation Followed by Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Eugene I. Hwang, Roger J. Packer

Part III. Leukemia

11. Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Identification of Inherited Susceptibility
Amy L. Sherborne, Richard S. Houlston

12. Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Role of BIM Protein in Prednisolone-Induced Apoptosis
Nan Jiang, Grace Shimin Koh, Allen Eng Juh Yeoh

13. Infectious Complications of Antineoplastic Chemotherapy in Children with Acute Leukemia or Solid Tumors
Elio Castagnola, Malgorzata Mikulska, Francesca Ginocchio, Claudio Viscoli

14. Pediatric Leukemia of Natural Killer Cells: Diagnosis and Multi-Agent Chemotherapy
Ashwin Patel, Somsuvra Ghatak

Part IV. Lymphoma

15. Pediatric Lymphoma Patients: Cytomegalovirus Infection
Samah A. Loutfy

16. Diagnosis of Bone Marrow Involvement in Pediatric Lymphoma Patients: FDG PET/CT Versus Bone Marrow Biopsy
Gang Cheng

17. Survivors of Childhood Hodgkin’s Lymphoma After Treatment: Subsequent Solid Tumor Malignancies Based on Gender and Radiation Dose
Sughosh Dhakal, Paul Youn, Michael T. Milano, Louis S. Constine

Part V. Rhabdoid

18. Early Childhood Paraspinal Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor: Failure of Standard Treatments
Amit Agrawal, Dhaval P. Shukla, Arvind Bhake, Rafael Cincu

19. Cerebral Tumor with Rhabdoid Features
Shigeo Ohba, Yoichi Nakazato, Kazunari Yoshida

20. Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor of the Pineal Region: Diagnosis
Hidehiro Takei, Lauren A. Langford

Part VI. Sarcoma

21. Ewing’s Sarcoma Family of Tumors: Targeting Molecular Pathways and the Race for a Cure
Atif A. Ahmed, Glenson Samuel, Joy M. Fulbright

22. Ewing’s Sarcoma: Current Concepts in Chemotherapy and Surgical Control
Gauri Kapoor, Sandeep Jain, Akshay Tiwari

23. Pediatric Epitheloid Finger Sarcoma: Diagnosis and Treatment
Felix Stang, Peter Mailänder, Frank Siemers

Part VII. Miscellaneous Tumors

24. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Pediatric Patients with Adrenocortical Tumors
Gaetano Magro, Giada Maria Vecchio, Rita Alaggio

25. Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor: Therapy
Barry Pizer, James Hayden

26. Giant Pediatric Midline Tumors of the Posterior Fossa: The Combined Transventricular and Supracerebellar Technique and other Approaches
Elvis J. Hermann, Joachim K. Krauss

27. Pediatric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: Pathology, Genetics, and Therapy
Atif A. Ahmed, Vivekanand Singh

28. Pediatric Pituitary Adenomas: Germline Genetic Defects
Margaret F. Keil, Constantine A. Stratakis

29. Pediatric Ependymomas: Role of Methylation
Mariana Bohns Michalowski, Dominique Plantaz

30. Pediatric Intramedullary Cavernoma: Surgical Treatment
Erwin Cornips, Mariel Ter Laak-Poort

31. Pediatric Patients with Bone Malignancy: Therapeutic Options
Lukas M. Nystrom, Jose A. Morcuende

32. Late and Acute Effects of Pediatric Cancer Therapy on the Oral Cavity
Christopher Rowland, Cesar A. Migliorati, Sue C. Kaste

33. Air Embolism in a Pediatric Patient: A Very Rare Complication of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
Marta Pisa, Giuseppe Chiaramonte, Ilaria Tarantino, Mario Traina

Keywords: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Biomedicine general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Entomology