Is it pre-enucleation chemotherapy or delayed enucleation of severely involved Eyes with intraocular retinoblastoma that risks extraocular dissemination and death?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3333-3334

  Chantada, Guillermo ^a   Leal Leal, Carlos ^b   Brisse, Herve ^c   De Graaf, Pim ^d   Sitorus, Rita S ^e   Qaddoumi, Ibrahim ^f   De Antoneli, Celia B G ^g   Tacyildiz, Nurdan ^h   Fineman, Sandra Luna ⁱ   Lumbroso, Livia ^c   Doz, François ^c  

^a Hospital de Pediatria SAMIC Prof Dr Juan P Garrahan   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e CIPTO MANGUNKUSUMO HOSPITAL   (Indonesia)

^f ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^h ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; BUPHTHALMOS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENUCLEATION; EVISCERATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR RETINOBLASTOMA; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT METASTASIS; PHYSICIAN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PREMEDICATION; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA;

EID: 80052016617     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.35.9190     Document Type: Letter

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