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    Pediatric Blood & Cancer: Volume 55, Issue 6

    1041-1246
    1 December 2010
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Highlights

Predicting and facilitating survival of pediatric cancer patients: The ALC story

Pete Anderson MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1041-1042
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Expanding options to improve outcomes following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Terry J. Fry MD, 
  • Pages: 1043-1044
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Preoperative hemostatic screening for pediatric adenotonsillar surgery: Worthwhile effort or waste of resources?

Eric J. Werner MD, 
  • Pages: 1045-1046
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Commentaries

Saving our careers: Personal advocacy, institutional responsibility, and ASPHO

Naomi L.C. Luban MD,  Jeffrey M. Lipton MD, PhD, 
  • Page: 1047
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Reviews

PET imaging for pediatric oncology: An assessment of the evidence

Carol Portwine MD, PhD,  Christopher Marriott PhD, MD,  Ronald D. Barr MB, ChB, MD, 
  • Pages: 1048-1061
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for children with thalassemia major in china†

Jian-Pei Fang MD,  Lu-Hong Xu PhD, 
  • Pages: 1062-1065
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Research Articles

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Mismatch repair deficiency is an uncommon mechanism of alkylator resistance in pediatric malignant gliomas: A report from the children's oncology group†

Ian F. Pollack MD,  Ronald L. Hamilton MD,  Robert W. Sobol PhD,  Marina N. Nikiforova MD,  Yuri E. Nikiforov MD,  Maureen A. Lyons-Weiler MS,  William A. LaFramboise PhD,  Peter C. Burger MD,  Daniel J. Brat MD,  Marc K. Rosenblum MD,  Floyd H. Gilles MD,  Allan J. Yates MD,  Tianni Zhou PhD,  Kenneth J. Cohen MD,  Jonathan L. Finlay MD,  Regina I. Jakacki MD, 
  • Pages: 1066-1071
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

HOX gene expression in phenotypic and genotypic subgroups and low HOXA gene expression as an adverse prognostic factor in pediatric ALL†

Julia Starkova MSc, PhD,  Blanka Zamostna,  Ester Mejstrikova MD, PhD,  Roman Krejci,  Harry A. Drabkin MD,  Jan Trka MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1072-1082
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Optic pathway glioma: Long-term visual outcome in children without neurofibromatosis type-1†

Marta Campagna MD,  Enrico Opocher MD,  Elisabetta Viscardi MD,  Milena Calderone MD,  Savina Maria Severino MD,  Iveta Cermakova MD,  Giorgio Perilongo MD, 
  • Pages: 1083-1088
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Inhibition of Bcl-2 and Bcl-X enhances chemotherapy sensitivity in hepatoblastoma cells†

Justus Lieber MD,  Bettina Kirchner,  Carmen Eicher MD,  Steven W. Warmann MD,  Guido Seitz MD,  Jörg Fuchs MD,  Sorin Armeanu-Ebinger PhD, 
  • Pages: 1089-1095
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Prognostic significance of early lymphocyte recovery in pediatric osteosarcoma†

Colin Moore MD,  Don Eslin MD,  Alejandro Levy MD,  Jessica Roberson MD,  Vincent Giusti MD,  Robert Sutphin MD, 
  • Pages: 1096-1102
  • First Published: 23 August 2010
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Incidence of bacteremias and invasive mycoses in children with acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia: Results from a multi-center Italian study†

Elio Castagnola MD, PhD,  Mario R. Rossi MD,  Simone Cesaro MD,  Susanna Livadiotti MD,  Mareva Giacchino MD,  Giulio Zanazzo MD,  Francesca Fioredda,  Chiara Beretta MD,  Francesca Ciocchello MD,  Modesto Carli MD,  Maria Caterina Putti MD,  Valeria Pansini MD,  Massimo Berger MD,  Maria Licciardello MD,  Silvia Farina MD,  Ilaria Caviglia PhD,  Riccardo Haupt MD, 
  • Pages: 1103-1107
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Presumptive treatment for malaria is not justified in children receiving cancer chemotherapy†‡

Deepak Bansal MD, DNB,  Piyush Gautam MD,  M.L. Dubey MD,  R.K. Marwaha MD, MNAMS, FIAP, FRCPCH, 
  • Pages: 1108-1110
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Anthroposophic medicine in paediatric oncology in Germany: Results of a population-based retrospective parental survey†

Alfred Läengler MD,  Claudia Spix PhD,  Friedrich Edelhäuser MD,  David D. Martin MD,  Genn Kameda MD,  Peter Kaatsch PhD,  Georg Seifert MD, 
  • Pages: 1111-1117
  • First Published: 25 August 2010

Danaparoid as the prophylaxis for hepatic veno-occlusive disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in childhood hematological malignancy†

Hirotoshi Sakaguchi MD,  Nobuhiro Watanabe MD, PhD,  Hideki Muramatsu MD, PhD,  Sayoko Doisaki MD,  Nao Yoshida MD, PhD,  Kimikazu Matsumoto MD, PhD,  Koji Kato MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1118-1125
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Initial testing (stage 1) of the multi-targeted kinase inhibitor sorafenib by the pediatric preclinical testing program†

Stephen T. Keir PhD,  John M. Maris MD,  Richard Lock PhD,  E. Anders Kolb MD,  Richard Gorlick MD,  Hernan Carol PhD,  Christopher L. Morton BS,  C. Patrick Reynolds MD, PhD,  Min H. Kang PharmD,  Amy Watkins MS,  Peter J. Houghton PhD,  Malcolm A. Smith MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1126-1133
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Antibody development in pediatric sickle cell patients undergoing erythrocytapheresis†

Gwendolyn J. Godfrey DO, MPH,  William Lockwood PhD, MD,  Maiying Kong PhD,  Salvatore Bertolone MD,  Ashok Raj MD, 
  • Pages: 1134-1137
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

SBDS-deficiency results in deregulation of reactive oxygen species leading to increased cell death and decreased cell growth†

Chhaya Ambekar PhD,  Bikul Das MBBS, PhD,  Herman Yeger BSc, MSc, PhD,  Yigal Dror MD, FRCP(C), 
  • Pages: 1138-1144
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Late valvular and other cardiac diseases after different doses of mediastinal radiotherapy for hodgkin disease in children and adolescents: Report from the longitudinal GPOH follow-up project of the German–Austrian DAL-HD studies†

Günther Schellong MD,  Marianne Riepenhausen PhD,  Christian Bruch MD,  Stefan Kotthoff MD,  Johannes Vogt MD,  Tobias Bölling MD,  Karin Dieckmann MD,  Richard Pötter MD,  Achim Heinecke PhD,  Jürgen Brämswig MD,  Wolfgang Dörffel MD, 
  • Pages: 1145-1152
  • First Published: 23 August 2010

A cost-effectiveness analysis of coagulation testing prior to tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children†

James D. Cooper MD,  Kenneth J. Smith MD, MS,  A. Kim Ritchey MD, 
  • Pages: 1153-1159
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Effect of adapted physical activity sessions in the hospital on health-related quality of life for children with cancer: A cross-over randomized trial†

Elodie Speyer MSc, PhD student,  Aline Herbinet PhD,  Anne Vuillemin PhD,  Serge Briançon MD,  Pascal Chastagner MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1160-1166
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

A palliative prognostic score for terminally ill children and adolescents with cancer†

Andréa Yamaguchi Kurashima RN, MSc, PhD,  Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre PhD,  Beatriz de Camargo MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1167-1171
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Influence of glutathione S-transferase A1, P1, M1, T1 polymorphisms on oral busulfan pharmacokinetics in children with congenital hemoglobinopathies undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation†

Ronit Elhasid MD,  Norberto Krivoy MD, FCP,  Jacob M. Rowe MD,  Eli Sprecher MD, PhD,  Lior Adler MD, PhD,  Hela Elkin BsC,  Edna Efrati PhD, 
  • Pages: 1172-1179
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Defining and managing career challenges for mid-career and senior stage pediatric hematologist/oncologists†

Ernest Frugé PhD,  Judith Margolin MD,  Terzah Horton MD, PhD,  Lakshmi Venkateswaran MD,  Dean Lee MD, PhD,  Donald L. Yee MD,  Donald Mahoney MD, 
  • Pages: 1180-1184
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Brief Reports

A child with severe form of dyskeratosis congenita and TINF2 mutation of shelterin complex†

Nazan Sarper,  Emine Zengin,  Suar Çakı Kılıç, 
  • Pages: 1185-1186
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Ghosal hematodiaphyseal dysplasia: A rare cause of a myelophthisic anemia† ‡

Parisa Mazaheri,  Girish Nadkarni MPH, CPH,  Elizabeth Lowe MD,  Patrick Hines MD, PhD,  Melena Vuica MD,  Matthew Griffin BS,  Linda M.S. Resar MD, 
  • Pages: 1187-1190
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

May–Thurner syndrome found incidentally after left femoral catheterization in a pediatric patient†

Kun Moo Lee MD, PhD,  Ji Kyoung Park MD,  Se Hun Lim MD,  Kwang Rae Cho MD,  Yong Han Kim MD,  Soon Ho Cheong MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1191-1194
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Development of antibodies to human thrombin and factor V in a pediatric patient exposed to topical bovine thrombin†

Clara Y. Lo MD,  Carol Jones BA,  Bertil Glader MD, PhD,  James L. Zehnder MD, 
  • Pages: 1195-1197
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Multicentric castleman disease in a child with primary immunodeficiency†

Jean-Philippe Drolet MD,  Marie-Astrid Lefebvre MD,  Chantal Bernard MD,  David Mitchell MD,  Christine McCusker MD,  Bruce Mazer MD, 
  • Pages: 1198-1200
  • First Published: 16 September 2010

Trimethoprim-induced immune hemolytic anemia in a pediatric oncology patient presenting as an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction†

Sweta Gupta MBBS, MD,  Cindy L. Piefer MT, SBB,  Judy T. Fueger MT, SBB,  Susan T. Johnson MSTM, MT, SBB,  Rowena C. Punzalan MD, 
  • Pages: 1201-1203
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Anaplastic ependymoma with sclerotic bone metastases†

Munir Hussain MB, BS, MRCPCH,  Conor Mallucci MB, BS, FRCS,  Laurence Abernethy MB, ChB, MD, MRCP, FRCR,  Vidula Godhamgaonkar MB, BS, DMRD, DNB, FRCR,  Nicola Thorp MB, ChB, MRCP, FRCR,  Dr. Barry Pizer MB, ChB, MRCP, FRCPCH, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1204-1206
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

A rare case of intrarenal teratoma in a 6-month-old male†

Kathryn Evans BMedSci, BMBS, MRCS,  Timothy Rogers MBBCh, FCS(SA), FRCS(Paed),  Robin Garrett-Cox MBBChir, MA, MS, FRCS(Edin), FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Paed), 
  • Pages: 1207-1209
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Stereotactic radiotherapy as an alternative to plaque brachytherapy in retinoblastoma†

Eman Eldebawy MD,  Horacio Patrocinio MSc,  Michael Evans MSc,  Rania Hashem MD,  Sylvie Nelson RTT,  Rubina Sidi RTT,  Carolyn Freeman MBBS, FRCPC, 
  • Pages: 1210-1212
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Metastatic alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A†

Ashley E. Jones MD,  Edythe A. Albano MD,  Mark A. Lovell MD,  Stephen P. Hunger MD, 
  • Pages: 1213-1216
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Complete response to carboplatin, gemcitabine, and paclitaxel in a patient with advanced metastatic renal medullary carcinoma†

Alexandra Walsh MD,  David R. Kelly MD,  Yoginder N. Vaid MD,  Lee M. Hilliard MD,  Gregory K. Friedman MD, 
  • Pages: 1217-1220
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

MRI changes associated with vigabatrin treatment mimicking tumor progression†

Tong Yang MD, PhD,  Sumit Pruthi MD,  J. Russell Geyer MD,  Jeffrey G. Ojemann MD, 
  • Pages: 1221-1223
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Evaluation of cytarabine against Ewing sarcoma xenografts by the pediatric preclinical testing program†

Peter J. Houghton PhD,  Christopher L. Morton BS,  Min Kang PhD,  C. Patrick Reynolds MD, PhD,  Catherine A. Billups MS,  Edward Favours,  Debbie Payne-Turner BS,  Chandra Tucker BS,  Malcolm A. Smith MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1224-1226
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Treatment of primary CNS lymphoma with high-dose methotrexate in immunocompetent pediatric patients†

Amish C. Shah MD, PhD,  David R. Kelly MD,  L. Burt Nabors MD,  W. Jerry Oakes MD,  Lee M. Hilliard MD,  Alyssa T. Reddy MD, 
  • Pages: 1227-1230
  • First Published: 29 September 2010

An unusual case of acute myeloid leukemia: Late isolated testicular relapse followed by isolated central nervous system relapse†

David D. Grier MD,  Andrew Eskew MD,  Thomas White MD,  Thomas W. McLean MD, 
  • Pages: 1231-1233
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Acute onset flaccid quadriparesis in pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma: Vincristine induced or Guillain–Barré syndrome?†

Ankur Bahl MD,  Biswaroop Chakrabarty MD,  Sheffali Gulati MD,  K.N. Vykunta Raju MD,  Ali Raja MD,  Sameer Bakhshi MD, 
  • Pages: 1234-1235
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

A high circulating copy number of HHV-6 due to chromosomal integration in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia†

Olli Lohi MD, PhD,  Mikko Arola MD, PhD,  Irmeli Lautenschlager MD, PhD,  Elisabeth P. Nacheva MD, PhD,  Kim Vettenranta MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1236-1238
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Sex chromosome changes after sex-mismatched allogeneic bone marrow transplantation can mislead the chimerism analysis†

Donát Alpár PhD,  Gergely Nagy MSc,  Carsten Hohoff PhD,  Béla Kajtár MD,  Katalin Bartyik MD, PhD,  Judit Hermesz BSc,  Pál Jáksó PhD,  Hajnalka Andrikovics MD, PhD,  László Kereskai MD,  László Pajor MD, PhD, CSc, 
  • Pages: 1239-1242
  • First Published: 25 October 2010

Letters to the Editor

Fatality in febrile neutropenia due to H1N1 influenza: An alert for pediatric oncologists

Indranil Ghosh MD,  Sameer Bakhshi MD,  Nauroze Asghar Faizi MD,  Shobha Broor MD, 
  • Pages: 1243-1244
  • First Published: 26 October 2010

Do symptoms of anxiety in the terminally ill child affect long-term psychological well-being in bereaved parents?

Sean Phipps PhD,  Robert B. Noll PhD, 
  • Page: 1245
  • First Published: 04 October 2010

Factor X Umuahia: A Severe Bleeding Diathesis Associated With a Novel Mutation

Amy Barone MD,  Marium Hill MD,  Jeffrey Campbell MD,  Gregory Griffin MD, 
  • Page: 1246
  • First Published: 20 August 2010