Retinoblastoma

H Dimaras, TW Corson, D Cobrinik, A White… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a rare cancer of the infant retina that is diagnosed in approximately 8,000
children each year worldwide. It forms when both retinoblastoma gene (RB1) alleles are …

Conservative management of retinoblastoma: Challenging orthodoxy without compromising the state of metastatic grace.“Alive, with good vision and no comorbidity”

FL Munier, M Beck-Popovic, GL Chantada… - Progress in retinal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Retinoblastoma is lethal by metastasis if left untreated, so the primary goal of therapy is to
preserve life, with ocular survival, visual preservation and quality of life as secondary aims …

Intravitreal chemotherapy for vitreous disease in retinoblastoma revisited: from prohibition to conditional indications

FL Munier, MC Gaillard, A Balmer, S Soliman… - British Journal of …, 2012 - bjo.bmj.com
Background Tumour control of vitreous seeds remains challenging owing to their resistance
to radiation and systemic chemotherapy. Objective To describe the short-term efficacy of …

Intra-arterial chemotherapy for the management of retinoblastoma: four-year experience

YP Gobin, IJ Dunkel, BP Marr, SE Brodie… - Archives of …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Objective: To determine whether intra-arterial chemotherapy is safe and effective in
advanced intraocular retinoblastoma. Retinoblastoma often presents with advanced …

The International Classification of Retinoblastoma predicts chemoreduction success

CL Shields, A Mashayekhi, AK Au, C Czyz, A Leahey… - Ophthalmology, 2006 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate the reliability of the International Classification of Retinoblastoma
(ICRB) for predicting treatment success with chemoreduction (CRD). DESIGN …

Retinoblastoma

R Rao, SG Honavar - The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2017 - Springer
Retinoblastoma represents 3% of all childhood cancers, and is the most common intraocular
malignancy of childhood. It is fatal, if untreated. White eye reflex, also known as leukocoria …

Retinoblastoma management: advances in enucleation, intravenous chemoreduction, and intra-arterial chemotherapy

CL Shields, JA Shields - Current opinion in ophthalmology, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Progress has been made in the past few years in the management of retinoblastoma with
better enucleation implants, chemoreduction-prevention of pinealoblastoma and excellent …

[图书][B] The selection and use of essential medicines: report of the WHO Expert Committee, 2015 (including the 19th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the 5th …

Organisation mondiale de la santé. Comité d'experts … - 2015 - books.google.com
This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for
updating the WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines.. The goal of the meeting was to …

Retinoblastoma

C Rodriguez-Galindo, DB Orbach… - Pediatric …, 2015 - pediatric.theclinics.com
Retinoblastoma is the most common neoplasm of the eye in childhood, representing 2.5% to
4% of all pediatric cancers. The average age-adjusted incidence rate of retinoblastoma in …

Intra-arterial chemotherapy (ophthalmic artery chemosurgery) for group D retinoblastoma

DH Abramson, AB Daniels, BP Marr, JH Francis… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Purpose To report globe salvage rates, patient survival and adverse events of ophthalmic
artery chemosurgery (OAC) for International Classification of Retinoblastoma (ICRB) group …