10. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
? Children with the genetic predispositions to cancer (1~10% cases)
11. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
? B-cell lymphomas, especially Burkitt lymphoma; peripheral T-cell lymphomas, Hodgkin
lymphoma, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma
? Hepatitis B and C infections : hepatocellular carcinoma
? Human papilloma virus : cervical cancer
12. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
13. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
? Four to six folds more likely to
develop second malignant
neoplasms(SMN) than the general
population
? More aggressive, harder to treat, worse
outcomes
14. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
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15. Radiation-related cancers
? Longer latency period ( at least 5 to
10 years after treatment)
? Associated with the cumulative dose,
field of radiation, and age at
treatment
? Solid tumor為主:
? breast, thyroid cancer, brain tumors,
sarcomas, and basal cell carcinomas
Chemotherapy-related cancers
? Occur within 2 to 5 years following
treatment, typically declining after
10 years
? Alkylating agents, topoisomerase
inhibitors
? Solid tumor(少數) 與therapy-related
AML/MDS(多數)皆有可能
16. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
? Long-term follow-up
17. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
? Children with the genetic predispositions to cancer (1~10% cases)
18. Children with the genetic predispositions to cancer
? How tumor
forms ?
19. ? How tumor
forms ?
Account for the
majority of
childhood cancer
Only the minority…
21. Children with the genetic predispositions to cancer
Down syndrome
? nearly 20-fold increased risk
of leukemia
? <2 y/o :
? AML >ALL, esp. acute
megakaryocytic leukemia
? Older age
? ALL > AML, 易 relapse 與
infection
Phenotypic female with part
or all of a Y chromosome
? Gonadoblastoma
? should have prophylactic
surgery to remove their
gonads
47XXY
? 50-fold increased risk of extra
gonadal germ cell tumors
Very-low birth weight
(<1500gm) baby
? hepatoblastoma
25. Who are at risk ?
? Certain infectious agents
? Children who have survived therapy for another cancer
? Children with the genetic predispositions to cancer (1~10% cases)
26. Solid Tumor in Children
(excluding CNS tumor)
- General concepts
- Epidemiology
- Cancer screen in children ?
- Differential diagnosis
- Lymphadenopathy
- Mediastinal mass
- Abdominal mass
- Unusual presentation
- (Oncogenic Emergency )
27. It is often difficult to diagnose
childhood cancer in its early
stages……
- Because many of the presenting
signs and symptoms are
nonspecific and mimic common
childhood diseases
29. Lymphadenopathy
Indication for biopsy:
? Chronic, persistent, progressive adenopathy,
in the absence of an infectious etiology
? Any nodes larger than 2.5 cm in diameter, in
the absence of signs of infection
? Supraclavicular adenopathy
? with Systemic symptoms
What we should do before biopsy ?
? Check viral titer (ex. EBV, CMV), E.S.R., LDH
? Check CXR, arrange abd./neck echo
? Biopsy tissue culture: TB, bacteria, fungi
? obtain tissue chromosome if malignancy is
suspected
30. Thoracic mass
? Virtually all primary intrathoracic tumors arise in the mediastinum
? Rarely tumor in lung/rib cage
- pleuropulmonary blastomas, desmoplastic small round cell
tumors, rhabdomyosarcomas
33. Mediastinal mass
What we do before biopsy ?
? Vital sign & airway stabilize
? Check LDH, AFP, beta-hCG,…
? Chest CT, cardiac echo
Indication for biopsy:
? All mediastinal mass, excepting for germ cell
tumor w/ elevating tumor marker&
characteristic image finding (but biopsy is
still preferred)
34. Abdominal mass
? Age plays a major role in the
diagnostic considerations
? Neonates
? Most mass are benign,
excepting Wilms’ tumor and
neuroblastoma
? Infant/Children
? 1st Neuroblastoma → 2nd
Wilms’ tumor → 3rd
Lymphoma
Calcification in X-ray
? Neuroblastoma, Hepatoblastoma,
teratoma