Parents of pediatric cancer patients experience uncertainty with regards to cancer-related pain. Parental pain management at home is very important in managing the overall symptoms of pediatric cancer patients. It is very important to investigate the relationship between parental anxiety and pain medication use. Studies have suggested that more anxious parents tend to experience more symptoms o...

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes of a pediatric cohort of patients compared with a matched cohort of adult patients, all diagnosed as having squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral tongue. Outcomes of oral cancer in pediatric patients have not been studied, to our knowledge. DESIGN Retrospective matched-pair cohort study. SETTING Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. ...

Since the 1970s, the mortality rate for children and adolescents with cancer has dropped by almost 50%, but the cure rate for pediatric cancer has plateaued in the past several years because there are relatively few new drugs being tested for childhood cancers, says Joseph Simone, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and pediatrics at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in S...

BACKGROUND Survivors of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) may experience unhealthy weight gain during treatment, which has been associated with higher risk for chronic health issues. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to obtain feedback on weight management in pediatric ALL survivors and on the content and implementation of a Web-based weight management program. METHODS Stud...

The International Outreach Program of St. Jude Childrens' Research Hospital has been developing programs to help countries with limited resources develop treatment centers to treat children with catastrophic diseases such as pediatric cancer and AIDS. Cure4Kids (www.cure4kids.org) is the Internet learning network that delivers medical education to doctors and nurses on pediatric cancer and AIDS...

Background Pediatric cancer survivors after anthracycline therapy are at risk for left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Strain may be a more sensitive marker than left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Feature tracking (FT) is a promising technique for strain measurement on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images, but has limited validation vs. the gold standard of harmonic phase (H...

Background  It is remain a main concern that pediatric chest radiographies contribute to the significant radiation exposure to the thyroid gland as a more susceptible organ to radiation induced cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the entrance surface dose (ESD) of pediatric chest radiography compared to the diagnostic reference levels (DRL) and evaluation the efficacy of the lead (Pb)...

Neuroblastoma is a common tumor in pediatric cancer and which might present with usual or unusual clinical features. One of the rare clinical finding of neuroblastoma is paraneoplastic syndromes. We report a two year-old girl with presentation of bilateral ptosis and abdominal pain which was diagnosed as having neuroblastoma. Our case is a very rare case of neuroblastoma accompanied by bilat...

1Division of Pediatric Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA; 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; 3Children’s Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA; 4Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; 5Department of Pathology, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AZ; 6Department and Division of Pediat...

Background: Febrile neutropenia is still one of the most important complications of treatment in cancer patients. These patients become prone to infection and consequently higher mortality and morbidity. This study aimed to determine the accuracy of serum procalcitonin (PCT) level in the detection of infection in pediatric cancer patients complicated with febrile neutropenia. Materials and Met...