Pediatric Oncology

About this book

The M.D. Anderson Cancer Care series is intended to provide state-of-the art guidelines on the multimodality treatment of cancer (multimodality is defined as any combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), according to the standard of practice at MDACC.

Topics covered in this volume will include a spectrum of several different malignancies occurring frequently in children, as well as melanoma, supportive care, and an outline of the Center’s Adolescent and Young Adult Program, a national model. Because of treatment advances, 4 out of 5 children survive cancer today.

As in the previous series volumes, each chapter will end with an up-to-date list of suggested readings, as well as "key practice points" highlighting principles and practices of each chapter, for at-a-glance reference. This thorough, practical volume is the essential clinical guide for oncologists, pediatrician/oncologists, surgeons, and other physicians involved in the care of children with various cancers.

Written for:

Oncologists, surgeons, radiation therapists, pediatric oncologists, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists

Table of contents

Acute Leukemia.- Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.- Brain Tumors in Childhood: Diagnosis, Surgery, Radiation, and Supportive Care.- Brain Tumors in Childhood: Chemotherapy and Investigational Therapy.- Wilms’ Tumor.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroblastoma.- Soft-Tissue Tumors in Children and Adolescents: Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment.- Osteosarcoma.- Ewing’s Sarcoma.- Retinoblastoma.- Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.- Melanoma.- New Agents.- Supportive Care: I.- Supportive Care: II.- Behavioral Medicine.- The Adolescent and Young Adult Program.- Index.