Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (AREKEN) Osaka Univ Grad School Med

We are treating children with cancer and hematological disorder at Osaka University Hospital, Japan.
Contact us at areken@ped.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Monday, April 17, 2006

Morning Seminar Vol 3(3) September 2005

Prediction of MYCN amplification in NB; Using serum DNA and real-time quantitative PCR (Gotoh, JCO 2005) 159

The 7th international childhood ALL workshop report: Palermo, Italy, January 29-30, 2005 (Arico, Leukemia 2005) 161

Pain relief for patients with pediatric cancer 165

Sequential regimen of chemotherapy, reduced-intensity conditioning for allogeneic SCT, and prophylactic donor lymphocyte transfusion in high-risk AML and MDS (Schmid, JCO 2005) 170

Allogeneic BMT in children with MDS or JMML: the Seattle experience (Yusuf, BMT 2004) 176

Central venous catheter infection 179

A vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults (Oxman, N Engl J Med 2005) 187

Standard-risk medulloblastoma treated by adjuvant chemotherapy followed by reduced-dose craniospinal radiation therapy: a French society of pediatric oncology study (Oyharcabal-Bourden, JCO 2005) 192

Antibacterial prophylaxis after cancer chemotherapy for solid tumors and lymphomas (Cullen, N Engl J Med 2005) 196

Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of Gefitinib in children with refractory solid tumors: a COG study (Daw, JCO 2005) 202

Group III & IV rhabdomyosarcoma 206

European Intergroup Studies (MMT4-89 and MMT4-91) on childhood metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma: final results and analysis of prognostic factors (Carli, JCO 2004) 207

Immune reconstitution and clearance of human adenovirus viremia in pediatric stem-cell recipients (Heemskerk, J Infect Dis 2005) 213

Evidence for an age cutoff greater than 365 days for NB risk group stratification in the Children’s Oncology Group (London, JCO 2005) 218

Review of alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) 222

Treatment of nonmetastatic rhabdomyosarcoma in childhood and adolescence:Third Study of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology – SIOP Malignant Mesenchymal Tumor 89 (Stevens, JCO 2005) 225

Oncolytic viral therapies (Lin, Cancer Gene Therapy 2004) 233

Glomerular dysfunction, independent of tubular dysfunction, induced by antineoplastic chemotherapy in children (Ikarashi, Pedistr Int 2004) 239