Title | Hodgkin's Disease in Children [electronic resource] : Controversies and Current Practice / edited by W. A. Kamps, G. B. Humphrey, S. Poppema |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1989 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1739-5 |
Descript | XVIII, 334 p. online resource |
I. Selected Topics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence for a B-cell origin of the proliferating cells -- 3. Conclusions from Hodgkin-derived cell lines -- 4. The Sternberg-Reed cell: a cell-fusion product? -- 5. The immune derangement and strategies for immunotherapy -- 6. Prognostic factors including clinical markers -- 7. Circulating cells in Hodgkin's disease -- 8. Current management and controversies: a surgeon's view -- 9. Indications for staging laparotomy and partial splenectomy -- 10. Current management and controversies: the chemotherapist's view -- 11. Current management and controversies: a radiotherapist's view -- 12. Current management and controversies: the patient's view -- 13. Salvage treatment for patients with multiply relapsed Hodgkin's disease -- 14. Late effects of Hodgkin's disease treatment in children -- 15. Areas of neglect and controversies in the dental care of children with Hodgkin's disease -- II. Institutional Reports -- 16. Hodgkin's disease in Indian children -- 17. Treatment of childhood Hodgkin's disease with chemotherapy alone: experiences from the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne -- 18. Pediatric Hodgkin's disease: late results and toxicityโthe Toronto experience -- 19. The Pediatric Oncology Group: studies in Hodgkin's disease -- 20. Current practice in Hodgkin's disease: the United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group -- 21. Results of therapy for Hodgkin's disease in childhood: the Argentine Group for Treatment of Acute Leukemia -- 22. The German cooperative therapy studies: an approach to minimize treatment modalities and invasive staging procedures -- 23. Hodgkin's disease in children and adolescents: experiences from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York -- 24. Results of therapy for Hodgkin's disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital -- 25. Clinical investigations of children with Hodgkin's disease at Stanford University Medical center: a preliminary overview using low-dose irradiation and alternating ABVD/MOPP chemotherapy -- III. Summary -- 26. Hodgkin's disease monograph -- 27. Clinical overview of Hodgkin's disease