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    Pediatric Blood & Cancer: Volume 70, Issue 8

    August 2023
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  • First Published: 23 June 2023

HIGHLIGHTS

Introduction to fertility preservation in pediatric patients with cancer: A report from the Children's Oncology Group

Jennifer M Levine, 
  • First Published: 20 February 2023

Pediatric stroke and thrombophilia—To test or not to test?

Clifford M. Takemoto, 
  • First Published: 27 May 2023

SPECIAL REPORT

The international scandal of defective asparaginase: A blight on children with cancer

Ronald D. Barr,  Rosa Furneaux,  Laura Margottini,  Tim O. B. Eden, 
  • First Published: 23 May 2023

REVIEWS

Psychosexual functioning in cancer survivorship: What the pediatric oncologist needs to know

Natasha N. Frederick,  Vicky Lehmann,  Astrid Ahler,  Kristen Carpenter,  Brooke Cherven,  James L. Klosky,  Leena Nahata,  Gwendolyn P. Quinn, 
  • First Published: 06 December 2021

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on delivery of pediatric radiotherapy: A critical review

Naba Ali,  Mithra Ghalibafian,  Katherine Sykes-Martin,  Jeannette Parkes,  Bilal Qureshi,  Natia Esiashvili, 
  • First Published: 27 May 2023

HOW I APPROACH

Open Access

Fertility preservation in pediatric leukemia and lymphoma: A report from the Children's Oncology Group

Allison Close,  Karen Burns,  Kari Bjornard,  Martine Webb,  Josuah Chavez,  Eric J. Chow,  Lillian Meacham, 
  • First Published: 17 May 2023

How I approach B-lymphoblastic lymphoma in children

Kaitlin J. Devine,  Carol Fries,  Michelle Hermiston,  Birte Wistinghausen, 
  • First Published: 09 May 2023

CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE

Open Access

Treatment of breakthrough and prevention of refractory chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in pediatric cancer patients: Clinical practice guideline update

Priya Patel,  Paula D. Robinson,  Robert Phillips,  Christina Baggott,  Katie Devine,  Paul Gibson,  Gregory M. T. Guilcher,  Mark T. Holdsworth,  Eloise Neumann,  Andrea D. Orsey,  Daniela Spinelli,  Jennifer Thackray,  Marianne van de Wetering,  Sandra Cabral,  Lillian Sung,  L. Lee Dupuis, 
  • First Published: 13 May 2023

HEMATOLOGY: RESEARCH ARTICLES

Thrombophilia screening in the routine clinical care of children with arterial ischemic stroke

Kristin Maher,  Laurel Persa,  Dwight Barry,  Jacqueline Lee-Eng,  Helen Dichek,  Sarita Joshi,  Catherine Amlie-Lefond, 
  • First Published: 28 April 2023
Open Access

Effect of voxelotor on cardiopulmonary testing in youths with sickle cell anemia in a pilot study

Vivian Phan,  Jared Hershenson,  Laura Caldarera,  Sandra K. Larkin,  Kari Wheeler,  Ana Lucia Cortez,  Robin Dulman,  Noravy Briere,  Angela Lewis,  Frans A. Kuypers,  Elizabeth Yang, 
  • First Published: 29 May 2023

Central nervous system thrombosis in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Turkey: A multicenter study

Zeliha Guzelkucuk,  Deniz Yılmaz Karapınar,  Sema Aylan Gelen,  Huseyin Tokgoz,  Alper Ozcan,  Yılmaz Ay,  Aysenur Bahadır,  Namik Yasar Ozbek,  Ayse Ceyda Oren,  Aylin Canbolat Ayhan,  Arzu Akyay,  Burcu Akıncı,  Nihal Karadas,  Aysegul Unuvar,  Hale Oren,  Ali Fettah,  Zuhre Kaya,  Bilgen Isık,  İbrahim Eker,  Serap Karaman,  Aysen Turedi Yıldırım,  Mehmet Fatih Orhan,  Yesim Oymak,  Cetin Timur,  Nalan Yazici,  Ayse Simsek,  Neslihan Karakurt,  Ersin Toret,  Melike Sezgin Evim, 
  • First Published: 17 May 2023

HEMATOLOGY: BRIEF REPORT

Activity of a TIE2 inhibitor (rebastinib) in a patient with a life-threatening cervicofacial venous malformation

Paloma Triana,  Juan Carlos Lopez-Gutierrez, 
  • First Published: 09 May 2023

ONCOLOGY: RESEARCH ARTICLES

Open Access

Gonadal development and function after immature testicular tissue banking as part of high-risk gonadotoxic treatment

Aude Braye,  Emily Delgouffe,  Jutte van der Werff ten Bosch,  Inge Gies,  Alina Ferster,  Ellen Goossens, 
  • First Published: 07 May 2023
Open Access

In vivo activity of the dual PI3Kδ and PI3Kγ inhibitor duvelisib against pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia xenografts

Joanna Randall,  Kathryn Evans,  Ben Watts,  Christopher M. Smith,  Keira Hughes,  Eric J. Earley,  Stephen W. Erickson,  Jonathan A. Pachter,  Beverly A. Teicher,  Malcolm A. Smith,  Richard B. Lock, 
  • First Published: 04 May 2023

A phase 1 study of simvastatin in combination with topotecan and cyclophosphamide in pediatric patients with relapsed and/or refractory solid and CNS tumors

Thomas Cash,  Hunter C. Jonus,  Maya Tsvetkova,  Jan H. Beumer,  Arhanti Sadanand,  Jasmine Y. Lee,  Curtis J. Henry,  Dolly Aguilera,  R. Donald Harvey,  Kelly C. Goldsmith, 
  • First Published: 09 May 2023
Open Access

Facial deformation following treatment for pediatric head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma; the difference between treatment modalities. Results of a trans-Atlantic, multicenter cross-sectional cohort study

Marinka L. F. Hol,  Daniel J. Indelicato,  Olga Slater,  Frederic Kolb,  Richard J Hewitt,  Juling Ong,  Alfred G. Becking,  Jenny Gains,  Julie Bradley,  Eric Sandler,  Mark N. Gaze,  Bradley Pieters,  Henry Mandeville,  Raquel Dávila Fajardo,  Reineke Schoot,  Johannes H. M. Merks,  Peter Hammond,  Ludwig E. Smeele,  Michael Suttie, 
  • First Published: 30 May 2023
Open Access

Impact of diagnostic and end-of-induction Curie scores with tandem high-dose chemotherapy and autologous transplants for metastatic high-risk neuroblastoma: A report from the Children's Oncology Group

Keri A. Streby,  Marguerite T. Parisi,  Barry L. Shulkin,  Brian LaBarre,  Rochelle Bagatell,  Lisa Diller,  Stephan A. Grupp,  Katherine K. Matthay,  Stephan D. Voss,  Alice L. Yu,  Wendy B. London,  Julie R. Park,  Gregory A. Yanik,  Arlene Naranjo, 
  • First Published: 18 May 2023
Open Access

Differentiation between rebound thymic hyperplasia and thymic relapse after chemotherapy in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma

Friedrich Christian Franke,  Adrian Damek,  Jonas Steglich,  Lars Kurch,  Dirk Hasenclever,  Thomas W Georgi,  Walther Alexander Wohlgemuth,  Christine Mauz-Körholz,  Dieter Körholz,  Regine Kluge,  Judith Landman-Parker,  William Hamish Wallace,  Alexander Fosså,  Dirk Vordermark,  Jonas Karlen,  Ana Fernández-Teijeiro,  Michaela Cepelova,  Tomasz Klekawka,  Andishe Attarbaschi,  Francesco Ceppi,  Andrea Hraskova,  Anne Uyttebroeck,  Auke Beishuizen,  Karin Dieckmann,  Thierry Leblanc,  Martin Moellers,  Boris Buerke,  Dietrich Stoevesandt, 
  • First Published: 27 May 2023

Tolerability of ifosfamide-containing regimen in patients with high-risk renal and INI-1-deficient tumors

Chris I. Wong,  Daniel J. Benedetti,  Pei-Chi Kao,  Clement Ma,  Karen J. Marcus,  Elizabeth A. Mullen, 
  • First Published: 23 May 2023

Adjuvant chemotherapy does not improve outcome in children with ovarian immature teratoma: A comparative analysis of clinical trial data from the Malignant Germ Cell International Consortium

Ana Glenda Santarosa Vieira,  Vidya Puthenpura,  Mark Krailo,  Negar Fallahazad,  Mark F. H. Brougham,  Matthew J. Murray,  A. Lindsay Frazier,  Luiz Fernando Lopes,  Farzana Pashankar, 
  • First Published: 26 May 2023

Ganglioneuroblastoma intermixed: Clinicopathological implications of diagnosis at presentation and genomic correlations

Behtash G. Nezami,  Shakeel Modak,  Fiorella Iglesias Cardenas,  Judy Sarungbam,  Sahussapont J. Sirintrapun,  Anuradha Gopalan,  Yingbei Chen,  Hikmat Al-Ahmadie,  Samson W. Fine,  Victor E. Reuter,  Satish K. Tickoo, 
  • First Published: 26 May 2023

Prognostic value of chest x-ray- and CT-defined large mediastinal adenopathy in high-risk pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma: A report from the Children's Oncology Group Study AHOD0831

Andrea C. Lo,  Inki Lee,  Qinglin Pei,  Yue Wu,  Kathleen M. McCarten,  Bradford S. Hoppe,  David C. Hodgson,  Kenneth Roberts,  Sarah Milgrom,  Sandy Kessel,  Peter D. Cole,  Kara M. Kelly,  Steve Y. Cho, 
  • First Published: 27 May 2023

ONCOLOGY: BRIEF REPORT

Open Access

“Per protocol” practice patterns for Children's Oncology Group trials within the radiation oncology community

Kevin X. Liu,  Lubna Hammoudeh,  Daphne A. Haas-Kogan,  Stephanie A. Terezakis, 
  • First Published: 04 April 2022

GLOBAL ONCOLOGY: RESEARCH ARTICLES

Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 126 children and adolescents with central nervous system tumors

Daniel C. Moreira,  Ibrahim Qaddoumi,  Yichen Chen,  Nickhill Bhakta,  Guillermo L. Chantada,  Victor M. Santana,  Miguela A. Caniza,  Meenakshi Devidas,  Kathy Pritchard-Jones,  Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo,  Eric Bouffet,  Sheena Mukkada,  the Global Registry of COVID-19 in Childhood Cancer , 
  • First Published: 17 May 2023

A single-blinded, randomized controlled trial of standard versus higher dose carboplatin-based intravenous chemotherapy for group D and E retinoblastoma

Pritam Singha Roy,  Safal Muhammed,  Usha Singh,  Sameeksha Gowravajhala,  Richa Jain,  Amita Trehan,  Deepak Bansal, 
  • First Published: 27 May 2023

GLOBAL ONCOLOGY: BRIEF REPORTS

Rhabdomyosarcoma in low- and middle-income countries: A report from the Asociacion de Hemato-oncología Pediatrica de Centro América (AHOPCA)

Claudia Garrido,  Tomás Letona,  Susana Godoy,  Federico Antillón,  Patricia Valverde,  Sandra Luna-Finemann,  Carlos Rodríguez-Galindo,  Soad Fuentes,  Ingrid Arambu,  Patricia Calderón,  Roberta Ortiz,  Margarita Montero,  Jessica Blanco,  Maria Grazia Valsecchi,  Andrea Ferrari, 
  • First Published: 16 March 2022

A retrospective review on the histopathological pattern of childhood malignant solid tumors in Ethiopia

Rahell Hailu Ayele,  Yodit Getahun Yimer,  Yonas Bekuretsion,  Lulu M. Muhe,  Shivani A. Patel,  Solveig A. Cunningham,  Daniel Hailu,  Benjamin Watkins, 
  • First Published: 17 May 2023

IMMUNOLOGY: RESEARCH ARTICLE

Humoral profiling of pediatric patients with cancer reveals robust immunity following anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination superior to natural infection

Samantha D Martin,  Nadège Nziza,  Pietro Miozzo,  Yannic Bartsch,  Eva J Farkas,  Abigail S Kane,  Lauren H Boal,  Alison Friedmann,  Galit Alter,  Lael M Yonker, 
  • First Published: 30 May 2023

PSYCHOSOCIAL AND SUPPORTIVE CARE: RESEARCH ARTICLES

The influence of child pain catastrophizing and parent behavior on health-related quality of life in pediatric sickle cell disease

Caitlin E. Shneider,  Lindsey L. Cohen,  Sharon W. Shih,  Soumitri Sil, 
  • First Published: 09 May 2023

Child and family perceptions of satisfaction with neutropenia management in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

Julia E. Szymczak,  Kelly D. Getz,  Rachel Madding,  Sydney Shuster,  Catherine Aftandilian,  Staci D. Arnold,  Anderson B. Collier,  Maria M. Gramatges,  Meret Henry,  Nobuko Hijiya,  Amir Mian,  Elizabeth Raetz,  Brian T. Fisher,  Richard Aplenc, 
  • First Published: 17 May 2023

SURVIVORSHIP: RESEARCH ARTICLES

Open Access

Healthcare utilization and cost barriers among U.S. childhood cancer survivors

Van T. Nghiem,  Chibuike J. Alanaeme,  Stephen T. Mennemeyer,  F. Lennie Wong, 
  • First Published: 29 May 2023

Eye-related quality of life and activities of daily living in pediatric retinoblastoma patients: A single-center, non-controlled, cross-sectional analysis

Jacob Wise,  Robert Hayashi,  Tiffany Wu,  Sara Malone,  Amer Al Badawi,  Allison King,  Mae Gordon,  Lawrencia Kimera,  Gregg Lueder,  Margaret Reynolds, 
  • First Published: 03 June 2023

Clinic reported facilitators and barriers to pediatric cancer survivor care delivery among survivorship clinics: A fishbone analysis

Victoria Krauss,  Ann Mertens,  Jordan Gilleland Marchak,  Regine Haardörfer,  Lillian R. Meacham,  Rebecca Williamson Lewis,  Robert Wright,  Oyinda Adisa,  Apoorva Kommajosula,  Cam Escoffery, 
  • First Published: 03 June 2023

SURVIVORSHIP: BRIEF REPORT

Diminished ovarian reserve in adolescent cancer survivors treated with heavy metal chemotherapy

Megan Pruett,  Rebecca Williamson Lewis,  James L. Klosky,  Karen E. Effinger,  Lillian R. Meacham,  Brooke Cherven, 
  • First Published: 27 May 2023

TRANSPLANTATION: BRIEF REPORT

Viral-specific T cells for Cytomegalovirus retinitis following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A success story

Raul Montiel-Esparza,  Suzanne M. Michalak,  Anthony Huy Dinh Le,  Christopher Or,  Quan Dong Nguyen,  Ruby Khoury,  Michael S. Grimley,  Alice Bertaina,  Edna Klinger,  Ami J. Shah,  Edward H. Wood, 
  • First Published: 26 May 2023

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Comment on: Evaluating age and sex-specific rates of gall bladder disease in children with sickle cell disease

Ifra Eeman Ahmed,  Satesh Kumar, 
  • First Published: 05 April 2023

Comment on: Palliative radiotherapy for children: Symptom response and treatment-associated toxicity according to radiation therapy dose and fractionation

Sepideh Mohammadipour,  Sezin Yuce Sari,  Ferah Yildiz, 
  • First Published: 05 April 2023

A three-year-old with central nervous system graft versus host disease: A rare cause of posthematopoietic stem cell transplant encephalopathy

Poorvi Agrawal,  Douglas R. Nordli III,  Loren A. McLendon, 
  • First Published: 12 May 2023

Anthracyclines for acute promyelocytic leukemia in a female with congenital long QT syndrome

Miku Kamimura,  Takuro Nishikawa,  Yoshihiro Takahashi,  Jun Nagahama,  Shunsuke Nakagawa,  Yumiko Ninomiya,  Masao Yoshinaga,  Yasuhiro Okamoto, 
  • First Published: 28 March 2023

Severe hemolytic anemia in a newborn: Look out for rare Gardos channelopathies due to KCNN4 mutation

Vania Munaretto,  Maddalena Martella,  Samuela Francescato,  Giulia Reggiani,  Maria Paola Boaro,  Paola Bianchi,  Elisa Fermo,  Wilma Barcellini,  Laura Sainati,  Raffaella Colombatti, 
  • First Published: 02 May 2023

Spontaneous globe rupture in infant with retinoblastoma

Hannah Ng,  Brian Sloan,  Yvonne S. P. Ng,  Chee Foong Chong, 
  • First Published: 05 April 2023

A male with ganglioneuroblastoma cerebrospinal hemorrhages, cardiomyopathy, and retinopathy due to severe hypertension

Takuma Deguchi,  Hiroko Fukushima,  Ryoko Suzuki,  Yuni Yamaki,  Takumi Ishiodori,  Mai Tanaka,  Shinichi Fukuda,  Kentaro Shirai,  Noriaki Sakamoto,  Kouji Masumoto,  Hidetoshi Takada, 
  • First Published: 28 March 2023

Two-year crizotinib monotherapy induced durable complete response of pediatric ALK-positive inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor

Akira Kaino,  Hidetaka Niizuma,  Saori Katayama,  Masahiro Irie,  Tomohiro Nakano,  Daichi Sato,  Tsuyoshi Saito,  Shunsuke Kato,  Yoshiyuki Suehara,  Yoji Sasahara,  Atsuo Kikuchi, 
  • First Published: 05 April 2023

Pediatric acute erythroid leukemias with monocytic antigen expression and novel chromosomal translocations

Gord Guo Zhu,  Zaina Inam,  Amanda Calleroz,  Vinodh Pillai,  Reuven J Schore,  Jinjun Cheng, 
  • First Published: 19 April 2023

B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia in an adolescent with Dravet syndrome

Mohamed Alzobi,  Christian Hurtz,  Hrishikesh Mehta,  Stefanie Thomas,  Seth J. Corey, 
  • First Published: 19 April 2023