Keywords :
Abdominal Neoplasms/diagnosis/genetics/therapy; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Neuroblastoma/diagnosis/genetics/therapy; Retrospective Studies; Thoracic Neoplasms/diagnosis/genetics/therapy
Abstract :
[en] In this retrospective study, we analyse epidemiology, clinical symptoms and therapeutic results in a group of 23 children with neuroblastoma. Half of them were less than 2 years of age; in 19 of 23, the primitive tumour was abdominal; 35% of them were initially metastatic. The overall survival was 83% at 5 years and the event free survival, 75% at 5 years. Pronostic factors are age, extension of the disease at diagnosis, biologic parameters and genetic study of the neuroblast cells (amplification of N-myc oncogen). Our study shows the deleterious effect of bone lesions.
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