Retrospective Studies
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Increased vulnerability of the spinal cord to radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy during adolescence: A report from the Children's Oncology Group.

13 Dec 2009 PURPOSE: To assess the rate of spinal cord toxicity in adolescents resulting from chemoradiotherapy of parameningeal sarcoma. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Of 152 patients with parameningeal sarcoma treated per the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group ... Read more...

Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with cancer.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: New strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which frequently carry the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes have been recognized to cause invasive infections in otherwise healthy children and adults. However, the ... Read more...

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allogeneic HCT) for treatment of pediatric Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) with best available donor for children with Philadelphia positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has previously been considered standard practice. Since the introduction of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Retrospective Studies'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Increased vulnerability of the spinal cord to radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy during adolescence: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. 13 Dec 2009
• Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with cancer. 13 Dec 2009
• Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allogeneic HCT) for treatment of pediatric Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). 13 Dec 2009
• Weight patterns in children with higher risk ALL: A report from the Children's Oncology Group (COG) for CCG 1961. 13 Dec 2009
• Veno-occlusive disease as a complication of preoperative chemotherapy for Wilms tumor: A clinico-pathological analysis. 13 Dec 2009
• Adrenal function testing in pediatric cancer survivors. 13 Dec 2009
• Natural history and outcome of optic pathway gliomas in children. 13 Dec 2009
• Vagus nerve stimulation for refractory epilepsy in children: More to VNS than seizure frequency reduction. 13 Dec 2009
• Rates of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia colonization and infection in relation to antibiotic cycling protocols. 29 Nov 2009
• Low drug resistance to both platinum and taxane chemotherapy on an in vitro drug resistance assay predicts improved survival in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian and peritoneal cancer. 29 Nov 2009
• The impact of CD34+ cell dose on platelet engraftment in pediatric patients following unmanipulated haploidentical blood and marrow transplantation. 29 Nov 2009
• Irinotecan and temozolomide for Ewing sarcoma: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering experience. 29 Nov 2009
• Erythrocytapheresis in children with sickle cell disease and acute chest syndrome. 29 Nov 2009
• Predictive power of pretreatment prognostic factors in children with hepatoblastoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group. 29 Nov 2009
• Malignancies in patients with beta-thalassemia major and beta-thalassemia intermedia: a multicenter study in Iran. 29 Nov 2009
• Results of treatment methods in cardiac arrest following coronary artery bypass grafting. 16 Nov 2009
• Radiation-induced sequelae measured by means of lymphocyte apoptosis: importance of certain single nucleotide polymorphisms: in regard to Schnarr et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009). 13 Nov 2009
• Carbonic anhydrase IX and human papillomavirus as diagnostic biomarkers of cervical dysplasia/neoplasia in women with a cytologic diagnosis of atypical glandular cells: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study in United States. 13 Nov 2009
• Serum IL-6 levels and the risk for hepatocarcinogenesis in chronic hepatitis C patients: an analysis based on gender differences. 13 Nov 2009
• The potential impact of human papillomavirus vaccination in contemporary cytologically screened populations may be underestimated: an observational retrospective analysis of invasive cervical cancers. 13 Nov 2009

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Technical information about 'Retrospective Studies'

Definition: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.

Descriptor UI: D012189

Alternative terms: Retrospective Studies; Retrospective Study; Studies, Retrospective; Study, Retrospective;

Tree Number: E05.318.760.500.500.500; N05.715.360.775.175.200.710; N06.850.520.450.500.500.500;

History Note: 67(65)

Technical Notes: IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific disease (IM); no qualif; specify geog if pertinent