Modern treatment strategies in pediatric oncology and hematology.

ABSTRACT: Every year, approximately 400 00 children worldwide are diagnosed with cancer. Although treatment results in most types of childhood neoplasms are excellent with survival more than 80%, there are some with poor prognosis. Also recurrent and resistant to treatment childhood cancer remain a therapeutic challenge. Besides chemotherapy, which has been the basis of cancer therapy for years, molecular methods and precisely targeted therapies have recently found their usage. As a result of that, survival has improved and has positively impacted the rate of toxicities associated with chemotherapy (Butler et al. in CA Cancer J Clin 71:315-332, 2021). These achievements have contributed to better quality of patients' lives. Current methods of treatment and ongoing trials give hope for patients with

SUBMITTER: Adamczewska-Wawrzynowicz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10267092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature