Treatments for Wilms' tumor
Treatments for Wilms' tumor
The list of treatments mentioned in various sources
for Wilms' tumor
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Hearing Loss – Congenital:
Treatment
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
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Identify children with hearing loss early
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Treat medically treatable cause, if any
–Syphilis (steroids and penicillin), Lyme disease, toxoplasmosis, hypercholesterolemia
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Intravenous gancyclovir for congenital CMV
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Habilitate by age 6 months if possible
–Amplification
–Bone-anchored hearing aids
–Tympanostomy tube placement
–Middle ear reconstruction
–Perilymphatic fistula closure
–Cochlear implant (after age 12 months)
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Periodic follow-up necessary
–Ensure auditory habilitation is working
–Check for hearing loss progression
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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007
Kidney cancer:
Treatment
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Radical nephrectomy, with or without regional lymph node dissection, offers the only chance of cure. Because the disease is radiation resistant, radiation is used only if the cancer spreads to the perinephric region or the lymph nodes or if the primary tumor or metastatic sites can't be fully excised. In these cases, high radiation doses are used.
Chemotherapy has been only erratically effective against kidney cancer. Fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide, vinblastine, vincristine, cisplatin, tamoxifen, teniposide, interferons, and hormones such as medroxyprogesterone and testosterone have been used, usually with poor results. Biotherapy (interferon and interleukins), commonly used in advanced disease, has produced few durable remissions.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Kidney cancer:
Treatment
(Handbook of Diseases)
Radical nephrectomy, with or without regional lymph node dissection, offers the only chance of cure. Because the disease is radiation-resistant, radiation is used only if the cancer spreads to the perinephric region or the lymph nodes or if the primary tumor or metastatic sites can’t be fully excised. In such cases, high doses of radiation are used.
Chemotherapy has been only erratically effective against kidney cancer and includes various drugs. Interferons and hormones, such as medroxyprogesterone and testosterone, have also been used. Biotherapy (lymphokine-activated killer cells with recombinant interleukin-2) shows promise, but causes adverse reactions. Interferon is somewhat effective in advanced disease. Hormone therapy may be tried in advanced cases.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Congenital Infections:
Management
(Pediatric Infectious Disease)
Patients with congenital CMV infection are at risk for a variety of
disabilities, including developmental delay and hearing loss. Symptomatic
children are considered to have the highest risk for long-term abnormalities,
although recent longitudinal studies have found predicting disability
difficult. It is known that the major disability in asymptomatic congenital CMV
infection is sensorineural hearing loss. This hearing loss may be progressive
in affected infants. After a diagnosis of congenital CMV is made, routine
assessments should be instituted. It has been recommended that a careful
ophthalmology exam be performed at 12 months, 3 years, and at entrance to
preschool. Audiology examinations should be done every 3 months until 3 years
of age and then annually.
No definitive protocols exist for the treatment of congenital CMV infection.
Clinical trials are in progress; a recent randomized clinical trial comparing
outcomes in symptomatic infants given the antiviral agent ganciclovir with
those in patients receiving no treatment suggested that there may be a benefit
from treatment, the greatest benefit in treated children being a reduction in
hearing loss. In early protocols of treatment of CMV, symptomatic infants were
administered intravenous ganciclovir for 6 weeks; later studies extended
treatment of affected infants with intravenous and then oral ganciclovir for up
to 1 year. Currently, it is not recommended that asymptomatic infants found to
be congenitally infected receive ganciclovir. These children should be followed
carefully for the development of sensorineural hearing loss. Neonates with
life-threatening symptomatic disease, including intractable thrombocytopenia,
pneumonia, or hepatic failure, are candidates for antiviral therapy. It is my
experience and the experience of investigators nationally that therapy can be
very beneficial in these cases.
Complications of ganciclovir include difficulties in maintaining intravenous
access and neutropenia. There will likely be continued efforts to identify
precisely and treat those infants likely to have long-term sequelae from
congenital CMV infection and those most likely to benefit from therapy.
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Source: Pediatric Infectious Disease, 2004
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