ISBN : 9780198797210
The outcome for children with cancer has shown enormous improvement since the first edition of this book was published in 1975. In economically privileged countries, overall survival rates have now reached 80% at five years from diagnosis, and most of these young people will become long term survivors. The Oxford Textbook of Cancer in Children offers state-of-the-art descriptions of the approach needed for the optimal management of children with cancer, and guidance on current treatments available due to the advances made over the past decade.
This seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, including brand new chapters on cancer immunotherapy in children, and cancer in adolescents and young adults, plus expanded treatment of tumours of the brain and central nervous system. The book primarily provides clear and up-to-date clinical guidance for use in treatment settings whilst offering a useful background to the biology of individual tumour types and the history of the development of specific treatments.
With an international and multi-disciplined authorship comprising of paediatric oncologists, surgeons, radiotherapists, imaging specialists, psychologists, nurses, and many others, the text illustrates how the paediatric oncology community works globally and collaboratively in order to drive forward new therapies, build our knowledge of these diseases, and achieve the common aim of curing childhood cancer. In this new edition, Professors Biondi and Caron have been joined by Professor Francois Doz, who has a distinguished international reputation, particularly in the treatment of childhood brain tumours and retinoblastoma, as well as early drug development. They have also been joined by Professor Tom Boterberg, a world renowned radio-oncologist for children with cancer.
This book will be of value to paediatric oncologists, trainee paediatric oncologists, paediatric haematologists, and other professionals working in paediatric oncology: nurses, AHPs, surgeons, and clinical oncologists.
Charles A. Stiller and Gemma Gatta: 1 The epidemiology of cancer in children and adolescents
Kieran McHugh and Thierry A.G.M. Huisman: 2 Imaging in paediatric oncology
Michel Zwaan, Gareth J. Veal, and Lucas Moreno: 3 Chemotherapy and other anti-cancer drugs: current knowledge and new perspectives
Mark Gaze and Tom Boterberg : 4 Radiotherapy in paediatric oncology
Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Stefania Galimberti, and Pamela Kearns: 5 Clinical trials in childhood cancer
Leontien C. M. Kremer, Erik A.H. Loeffen, and Bob S. Phillips: 6 Evidence-based paediatric oncology
Adriana Balduzzi, Giovanna Lucchini, Jean-Hugues Dalle, and Rupert Handgretinger: 7 Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in children and adolescents with malignancies
Koichi Hirabayashi, Gianpietro Dotti, and Barbara Savoldo: 8 Cancer Immunotherapy in Children
Marianne van de Wetering and Bob S. Phillips: 9 Supportive care during treatment
Martha Grootenhuis, Momcilo Jankovic, Esther van den Bergh, and Femke Aarsen: 10 Psychosocial care
Michelle Koh, Finella Craig, and Joanne Wolfe: 11 Palliative Care for Children with Advanced Cancer
Elizabeth Molyneux, Trijn Israels, and Scott C. Howard: 12 Cancer treatment in low- and middle-income countries
Lucy J.W. Jones, Emmanouil Saloustros, Andrea Ferrari, and Dan Stark: 13 Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults
Lars Hjorth, Riccardo Haupt, Gisela Michel, Maria Luisa Garre, Leontien Kremerand, and Rod Skinner: 14 Late effects of therapy and survivorship issues
Denis Schewe, Mignon Loh, Rob Pieters, and Martin Schrappe: 15 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Gertjan Kaspers and Dirk Reinhardt: 16 Acute myeloid leukaemia
Henrik Hasle and Charlotte M. Niemeyer : 17 Myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloid leukaemia of Down syndrome, and juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia
Veronique Minard-Colin and Catherine Patte: 18 Non-Hodgkin lymphomas in children and adolescents
Judith Landman-Parker and Francoise Montravers: 19 Hodgkin lymphoma: modern management of children and young adults
Maurizio Arico, Cor van den Bos, and Sheila Weitzman: 20 Childhood histiocytoses
Michel Zerah, David Walker, and Shaarna Whitton : 21 Symptoms and emergencies in children with brain and spinal tumors
Dannis van Vuurden, Darren Hargrave, Dominik Sturm, and David T.W. Jones : 22 Glial CNS tumours of childhood
Maura Massimino, Eric Bouffet, and Vijay Ramaswamy : 23 Embryonal tumours
Cecile Faure Conter, Didier Frappaz, Kristian W. Pajtler, and Stefan M. Pfister : 24 Other CNS tumours of childhood
Hans Merks and Gianni Bisogno : 25 Soft tissue sarcomas
Stefan Bielack, Michael Paulussen, and Lee Helman : 26 Bone tumors
Norbert Graf and Christophe Bergeron : 27 Wilms' and other renal tumours
Angelika Eggert, Garrett Brodeur, and Gudrun Schleiermacher: 28 Neuroblastoma
Gabriele Calaminus and James C. Nicholson: 29 Germ Cell Tumours
Giorgio Perilongo and Jozsef Zsiros: 30 Childhood liver tumours
Guillermo Chantada and Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo: 31 Retinoblastoma
