Tumours in Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

   PDF

2. Problems of Children’s Tumours in Britain

   • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

   Pages 1-13

3. Aetiology of Childhood Cancer: Epidemiological Approach

   • Robert W. Miller

   Pages 14-27

4. Some Variations in Childhood Cancers Throughout the World

   • J. N. P. Davies

   Pages 28-58

5. Leukaemia

   • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

   Pages 59-97

6. Non-Leukaemic Reticuloendothelial Tumours and Leucosarcomas

   • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

   Pages 98-136

7. Intracranial and Spinal Tumours

   • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

   Pages 137-193

8. Tumours of the Sympathetic System

   • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

   Pages 194-244

9. Retinoblastomas

   • J. L. S. Smith, M. A. Bedford

   Pages 245-281

10. Connective Tissue Tumours

    • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

    Pages 282-326

11. Renal Tumours

    • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

    Pages 327-361

12. Teratomas and Other Genital Tumours

    • N. J. Brown, F. A. Langley

    Pages 362-402

13. Epithelial and Other Rare Tumours

    • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

    Pages 403-444

14. Ewing’s Tumours

    • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

    Pages 445-460

15. Tissue Culture and Immunological Studies

    • Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward

    Pages 461-485

16. Back Matter

    Pages 487-502

    PDF

Cancer in childhood is a rare disease, but for many reasons attracts interest out of proportion to its frequency. There is, of course, the parental anguish associated with a catastrophic illness in a son or daughter - anguish shared in large measure by the physician. This aspect no doubt has spurred on clinicians and investigators in their race to develop more effective means of treatment. The rewards are great. Not only is there the human element, but there is also the fact that survival of the successfully treated child is measured in scores of years rather than the ordinary five to ten year survival rates cited for the adult. Associated with this aspect of paediatric oncology is the responsibility to make those many years as trouble-free as possible. The challenge to the team organizing the care of children with cancer is clear. Cure is to be obtained, but not at the cost of progressively more severe somatic or psychic lesions as the child develops through adolescence to maturity. The cured child of today must not become the chronically ill adult of tomorrow. The spectrum of malignant diseases in childhood is not so varied as that of older patients. The kinds of tumour seen in children are relatively few in number; therefore, concentrated attention can be focussed on each entity, and specific strategies developed for clinical management.

• Children
• Tumors
• Tumours
• cancer
• diseases
• oncology
• tumor

• Department of Child Health, Christie Hospital, University of Manchester, Withington, Manchester, Great Britain

  Henry Basil Marsden

• Departments of Child Health and Pathology, Manchester University, UK

  James Kenrick Steward

• the Christie Hospital, UK

  James Kenrick Steward

Policies and ethics