Pancreatic Tumors in Children

Where do you begin to look for a recent, authoritative article on the diagnosis or management of a particular malignancy? The few general oncology textbooks are generally out of date. Single papers in specialized journals are informative but seldom comprehensive; these are more often preliminary reports on a very limited number of patients. Certain general journals frequently publish good in-depth reviews of cancer topics, and pub lished symposium lectures are often the best overviews available. Unfortu nately, these reviews and supplements appear sporadically, and the reader can never be sure when a topic of special interest will be covered. Cancer Treatment and Research is a series of authoritative volumes which aim to meet this need. It is an attempt to establish a critical mass of oncology literature covering virtually all oncology topics, revised frequently to keep the coverage up-to-date, easily available on a single library shelf or by a single personal subscription. We have approached the problem in the following fashion. First, by dividing the oncology literature into specific subdivisions such as lung can cer, genitourinary cancer, pediatric oncology, etc. Second, by asking eminent authorities in each of these areas to edit a volume on the specific topic on an annual or biannual basis. Each topic and tumor type is covered in a volume appearing frequently and predictably, discussing current diagnosis, staging, markers, all forms of treatment modalities, basic biology, and more.

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I. Selected Topics.- 1. Role of natural killer (NK) cells in resistance to tumors.- 2. Clonal evolution and childhood tumors.- 3. Cancer cell differentiation.- 4. Clinical significance of chromosome abnormalities in childhood and adult leukemia.- II. Pancreatic Malignancies.- 5. Genetic aspects of endocrine neoplasia.- 6. Tumors of the exocrine pancreas in childhood.- 7. Pre-operative evaluation of pancreatic tumors.- 8. Surgical therapy in pancreatic malignancies in children.- 9. Pancreatic carcinoma in children in Japan-Review of the Japanese literature.- 10. Pancreatoblastoma. Histopathologic criteria based upon a review of six cases.- 11. Solid and papillary epithelial neoplasms of the pancreas.- 12. Ectopic Cushing's syndrome in an adolescent.- 13. Low grade papillary pancreatic neoplasm in an adolescent female.- 14. Cancer of the pancreas in children: Experience at the M.D Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute.- 15. A case of metastatic insulinoma in an adolescent girl.- 16. Experience with endocrine and exocrine neoplasias in children.- 17. Childhood rare endocrine tumors.- 18. Overview of childhood pancreatic tumors.