Prognostic Factors for Pediatric Tumors

• Other Authors: Kourti, Maria (Editor), Hatzipantelis, Emmanouel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Medicine; Oncology; undernutrition; obesity; nutritional status; childhood cancer; overall survival; event-free survival; relapse; treatment-related toxicity; review; sarcoma botryoides; fertility-sparing surgery; embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma; genital tract; prognosis; treatment; local debulking; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; radiation; ovarian cancer; adolescents; diagnosis; therapy; guidelines; children; papillary thyroid cancer; proto-oncogene B-raf gene (BRAF); craniopharyngioma; recurrence; risk factors; youth; acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); child; genetics; CDKN2A/2B deletions; fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); multiple-ligation probe amplification (MLPA); copy-number alterations (CNAs); risk stratification; minimal residual disease (MRD); cardiotoxicity; chemotherapeutics agents; biomarkers; omics technology; medulloblastoma; tumor; histologic; pediatrics; micro-RNAs; non-coding RNAs; molecular subgroup; stratification; acute lymphoblastic leukemia; proteomics; oncology; chemotherapy; cardiac function tests; n/a
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In this Special Issue, recent advancements in the field of pediatric tumors are discussed, and novel prognostic markers are critically appraised. Greater understanding of the heterogeneity of pediatric cancers will ultimately lead to new therapeutic strategies with the potential to provide new prosp...