Cancer in Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. General Chapters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Aetiology and Epidemiology

      • R. W. Miller

      Pages 3-8

   3. Pathology

      • R. Gérard-Marchant

      Pages 9-22

   4. Surgery (General Principles)

      • H. B. Eckstein, E. F. Battersby

      Pages 23-28

   5. Radiation Therapy

      • D. Pearson, G. J. D’Angio

      Pages 29-47

   6. Cancer Chemotherapy

      • A. E. Evans, M. H. Donaldson

      Pages 48-61

   7. Infections in Children with Malignant Disease

      • W. T. Hughes

      Pages 62-71

   8. General Care

      • O. Schweisguth

      Pages 72-75

   9. Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis

      • M. K. Neidhardt

      Pages 76-84

   10. Facilities for Paediatric Cancer Cases and Children’s Tumour Registration

       • D. N. Lawson, J. K. Steward

       Pages 85-89

3. Special Chapters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Tumours of the Central Nervous System

      • H. J. G. Bloom, L. S. Walsh

      Pages 93-119

   3. Retinoblastoma

      • M. A. Bedford, J. E. Freeman

      Pages 120-127

   4. Other Tumours of the Eye and Orbit

      • K. Wybar, V. Dalley

      Pages 128-137

   5. Tumours of the Sympathetic Nervous System

      • P. A. Voûte, W. J. van Putten, J. M. V. Burgers

      Pages 138-148

   6. Leukaemia

      • T. J. McElwain

      Pages 149-161

   7. Malignant Lymphomas

      • R. D. T. Jenkin, P. Morris Jones

      Pages 162-179

   8. Burkitt’s Sarcoma

      • P. Clifford, V. A. Ngu

      Pages 180-192

   9. Histiocytosis

      • M. E. Nesbit Jr., W. Krivit

      Pages 193-199

With the fall in mortality from infectious diseases, the impact of childhood cancer in the Western World has increased to become the second commonest cause of death in the age group 1-14 years, being surpassed only by accidents. However, even in those countries in which paediatric cancer is attracting increasing interest, the disease is relatively uncommon, and the number of cases seen by anyone physician, even in a large general hospital, is often limited to one or two a year. The widely held view by parents and even by many doctors that cancer in childhood is usually untreatable and inevitably fatal is no longer tenable. With improvement in the therapeutic response or in the actual survival rates of children with such lesions as Wilms' tumour, brain tumours, rhabdomyosarcomas, Ewing's sarcoma, retinoblastoma, lym­ phoma and even leukaemia, there is a real hope of achieving a substantial reduction in the mortality of childhood cancer. Paediatric oncology is, in fact, providing a vigorous stimulus to the much wider field of cancer treatment and research, and is demonstrating the advantages of a multi-disciplinary cooperation in the management of this disease.

• Krebs
• cancer
• cancer treatment
• mortality
• tumor

• Department of Radiotherapy, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London and Surrey, UK

  H. Julian G. Bloom

• Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey, UK

  H. Julian G. Bloom

• St.Peter’s Group of Urological Hospitals, London, UK

  H. Julian G. Bloom

• St. George’s Hospital, London, England

  H. Julian G. Bloom

• Department of Paediatrics, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

  Jean Lemerle

• First Paediatric Hospital, Augsburg, Federal Republic of Germany

  Malte K. Neidhardt

• Department of Paediatric Oncology, Emmakinderziekenhuis and Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Paul A. Voûte

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