In the last decade, advances were made in understanding the significance of protein energy malnutrition (PEM), in recognizing PEM in specific subpopulations of children with malignancies, in staging and assessment of nutritional status, and in understanding the efficacy and limitations of various options for nutrition support. This report describes our experience in providing nutrition support ...

Aims: Cancer in children can adversely affect their quality of life. Evaluation health related life (HRQoL) during the process treatments is important for recognition acute dysfunction to therapy and disease. The aims this study was assess HRQoL cancer with using Pediatric Quality Life InventoryTM (PedsQLTM) influence type dan duration treatment life.
 Methodology: This cross-sectional con...

PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION STYLE AND ADJUSTMENT TO PEDIATRICCANCER TREATMENT

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the meaning of being cared for and comforted by pediatric oncology nurses among a sample of childhood cancer survivors. RESEARCH APPROACH A hermeneutic analysis was conducted to describe the meaning of the phenomenon. SETTING An oncology treatment center in the northeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS 11 childhood cancer survivors. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Fo...

Taste acuity of adult patients undergoing cancer treatment has been well investigated; however, studies of taste acuity after completion of cancer treatment are limited, particularly in children. This study aimed to assess taste acuity in pediatric cancer patients after treatment completion. Seventy-three patients who had completed cancer treatment (median age, 13 years; range, 7 18 years) and ...

The European Pediatric Medicine Regulation was launched in 2007 to provide better medicines for children. Five years later, the number of new anticancer drugs in early development in the pediatric population remains low, and most children with cancer are still largely denied access to innovative drugs in Europe, as compared with the United States. We analyzed individual pediatric investigation ...

We conducted a cross-sectional study of beta-herpesviruses in febrile pediatric oncology patients (n = 30), with a reference group of febrile pediatric solid-organ transplant recipients (n = 9). One (3.3%) of 30 cancer patients and 3 (33%) of 9 organ recipients were PCR positive for cytomegalovirus. Four (13%) of 30 cancer patients and 3 (33%) of 9 transplant recipients had human herpesvirus 6B...

Hereditary medullary thyroid cancer is an aggressive cancer for which there is no standard effective systemic therapy, but which can be prevented through genetic screening and prophylactic thyroidectomy. Although this cancer accounts for roughly 17% of all pediatric thyroid cancers, a significant percentage of affected families do not "accept" screening, while many gene carriers delay or refuse...

OBJECTIVE To compare the risk of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms and the mediating effect of perceived future threat on the risk of PTS symptoms among survivors of pediatric cancer and children who had a parent die. METHODS Seventy-eight children (39 survivors of cancer, 39 bereaved) completed self-report measures of PTS symptoms, depression, anxiety, and perceived risk of future threat f...

Magnetic resonance (MR) techniques offer a non-invasive, non-irradiating yet sensitive approach to diagnose and monitor cancer, which encompasses diverse processes affecting various aspects of pathophysiology. Techniques such as MR spectroscopy (MRS) have been developed and applied to monitor the metabolic aspects of cancer. Given that cancer is such a variable disease, biomarkers identified us...