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Fully revised and updated for its second edition, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology provides an easily accessible source of information about all of the basic principles of childhood cancer and leukaemia, and detailed specialist knowledge on how to care for children with those conditions. Featuring new chapters on the biology of childhood leukaemia and central nervous system tumours, the book includes a greater focus on the rapidly expanding research in the biology and genetics of childhood malignancy, as well as new clinical treatments and more detail on various tumour types.
Logically split into 12 sections on different aspects of haematology and cancer to allow quick and easy reference, the book provides general principles of diagnosis and treatment, short- and long-term care, and oncological emergencies, before moving on to chapters on specific diseases. Normal values and useful websites are also included for reference.
Chapters have been expanded to feature more clinical images to aid in diagnosis and interpretation, making this second edition an invaluable companion for the trainee and consultant in paediatric haematology and oncology.
List of contents
- 1 Introduction to paediatric haematology and oncology
- 1: Professor Mark Pearce: Epidemiology of childhood cancer
- 2: Professor Deborah Tweddle: Overview of biology and genetics of childhood cancer
- 3: Professor Alan Davidson: Paediatric oncology in the developing world
- 2 General approaches to suspected cancer
- 4: Dr Fiona Herd: Abdominal mass
- 5: Professor Simon Bailey: Initial diagnosis of brain tumours
- 6: Dr Geoff Shenton: The bleeding or bruising child
- 7: Dr Sunita Dhir: Lymphadenopathy
- 8: Dr Dipayan Mitra: Imaging of brain tumours
- 9: Dr Claire Gowdy and Dr Leigh McDonald: Imaging of non-CNS tumours
- 3 Haematological and oncological emergencies
- 10: Dr Simon Bomken, Dr Heather Lambert, Dr Anita Devlin, Dr Britta Vormoor, Dr Tina Biss, Professor Simon Bailey, and Professor Rod Skinner: Haematological and oncological emergencies
- 4 General principles
- 11: Professor Simon Bailey: Multimodality treatment
- 12: Professor Rod Skinner and Ms Lynzie Middleton: Systemic anticancer drugs
- 13: Dr Joanne Lewis: Paediatric radiotherapy
- 14: Dr Hany Gabra: Surgery
- 15: Professor Rod Skinner and Dr Wing Roberts: Haemopoietic stem cell transplantation
- 16: Sister Lisa Price: Clinical trials
- 5 Supportive care
- 17: Professor Marieke Emonts, Dr Lucia Pareja-Cebrian, and Professor Rod Skinner: Infection
- 18: Dr Peter Carey: Blood transfusion
- 19: Sister Kelley Mellett and Amanda Gerrard: Pain
- 20: Professor Simon Bailey, Professor Rod Skinner, Ms Fiona Court, Dr Heather Borrill, Mr Hany Gabra, Dr Peter Carey: Other aspects of supportive care
- 6 Long term follow up
- 21: Professor Rod Skinner: Long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors
- 7 Benign haematological diseases
- 22: Dr Peter Carey: Haemoglobinopathies
- 23: Dr Tina Biss: Haemostasis and thrombosis
- 24: Professor Rod Skinner: Bone marrow failure
- 25: Dr Peter Carey: Other non-malignant causes of peripheral blood cytopenias
- 8 Malignant haematological diseases
- 26: Dr Frederik Van Delft: Biology of childhood leukaemia
- 27: Professor Josef Vormoor: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
- 28: Dr Geoff Shenton, Dr Wing Roberts, and Professor Rod Skinner: Acute myeloid leukaemia
- 29: Professor Rod Skinner: Acute leukaemia of ambiguous lineage
- 30: Professor Rod Skinner: Myelodysplasia
- 31: Professor Rod Skinner: Chronic myeloid leukaemia and other chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms
- 32: Dr Simon Bomken: Lymphoma
- 9 Solid tumours
- 33: Professor Deborah Tweddle: Neuroblastoma
- 34: Dr Helen Jenkinson: Retinoblastoma
About the author
Professor Simon Bailey is a Consultant in Paediatric Oncology at the Great North Childrens Hospital, and an Honorary Professor of Paediatric Neuro-Oncology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He specialises in brain tumours.
Professor Rod Skinner is a semi-retired paediatric and adolescent haemato-oncologist. He is the clinical lead for long-term follow-up of childhood and adolescent cancer and leukaemia.
Prior to semi-retirement, Professor Skinner was also clinical lead of the Paediatric Haematology Bone Marrow Transplant service and cared for children with acute leukaemia, aplastic anaemia and rare paediatric haematological malignancies.
Professor Skinner's clinical interests include long-term follow-up of individuals previously treated for childhood cancer or leukaemia, those who had bone marrow / stem cell transplants during childhood or adolescence, and childhood cancer survivorship.
Summary
Fully revised and updated for its second edition, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology provides an easily accessible source of information about all of the basic principles of childhood cancer and leukaemia, and detailed specialist knowledge on how to care for children with those conditions.
