During the last SIOP meeting in Toronto, F. Sarialioglu and al. from the Baskent University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara Turkey preented their preliminary experience with propranolol in pedaitric solid tumours. We copy bellow the abstract available in the dedicated volume of Pediatric Blood and Cancer PROPRANOLOL IN TUMORS EXCEPT INFANTILE (...)
The Pediatric Blood & Cancer journal has just released an interesting report about the use of a metronomic maintenance in children with pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs). In the article entitled Radiation therapy and concurrent topotecan followed by maintenance triple anti-angiogenic therapy with thalidomide, etoposide, and (...)
Dhamne Chetan, Herzog Cynthia from the Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System, the Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA have reported in the J Pediatr (...)
The Latin American Group of Osteosarcoma Treatment has just published in Cancer the results of a randomized trial, evaluation the addition of a metronomic maintenance for patients with a resectable, non metastatic osteosarcoma. The first author of the paper, Andreza A. Senerchia, is one of our MGHI member. Although, at last follow-up, EFS with MAP plus (...)
Adriana Rose , Lauro Jose Gregianin , Erica Boldrini , Carla Macedo , Sima Ferman , Tatiana El Jaick Bonifácio Costa , Marcelo Scopinaro , Algemir Lunardi Brunetto , André Tesainer Brunetto , Milena Villarroel on behalf of the GALOP Latin American Pediatric Oncology Group Ewing Sarcoma Investigators have published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer the (...)
Devadas SK, and Banavali S from the Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital, Department of Medical Oncology, Bengaluru, India. and the Tata Memorial Hospital, Department Of medical Oncology, Mumbai, India. have just published in the Gulf Journal of Oncology a retrospective study entitled: Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes of Patients with Relapsed, (...)
Winter and al. have just published in PLoS One an article entitled Schedule-Dependent Antiangiogenic and Cytotoxic Effects of Chemotherapy on Vascular Endothelial and Retinoblastoma Cells. in whihc they show that metronomic topotecan and melphalan are valid option for giving chemotherapy in retinoblastoma. This work is a collaboration between the (...)
The Société Française des Cancers et leucémies de l’Enfant et de l’adolescent (SFCE) has recently published a very interesting metronomic phase II in children showing the efficacy of this regimen in children with relapsing RMS. Since vinorelbine can also be given orally, this paves the way for convinient treatments. Phase II study of vinorelbine and (...)
This month in the ECCO website, the clinical case of the month reports on the use of metronomics for the palliative treatment of a child with bone metastasis of a medulloblastoma. The case is written by S. Wilne and al. from the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom. The metronomics treatment was based on oral etoposide for a year (...)
Demlova and al. from the team of Jaroslav Sterba in Brno have recently published in Current Oncology a case report entitled : Successful use of metronomic vinblastine and fluorothymidine pet imaging for the management of intramedullary spinal cord anaplastic oligoastrocytoma in a child. They report a child with anaplastic oligodendroglioma of the (...)