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Hepatoblastoma with a low serum alpha-fetoprotein level at diagnosis: The SIOPEL group experience

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This study clearly identifies patients with hepatoblastoma and low serum AFP at diagnosis as a high-risk subgroup with extensive disease at diagnosis, poor response to chemotherapy and a poor outcome.
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This article is published in European Journal of Cancer.The article was published on 2008-03-01. It has received 135 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hepatoblastoma & Alpha-fetoprotein.

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Cisplatin versus cisplatin plus doxorubicin for standard-risk hepatoblastoma

TL;DR: Cisplatin monotherapy achieved similar rates of complete resection and survival among children with standard-risk hepatoblastoma and doxorubicin can be safely omitted from the treatment of standard- risk hepatoblowlastoma.
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Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

TL;DR: In this article, the product-limit (PL) estimator was proposed to estimate the proportion of items in the population whose lifetimes would exceed t (in the absence of such losses), without making any assumption about the form of the function P(t).
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Randomized Comparison of Cisplatin/Vincristine/Fluorouracil and Cisplatin/Continuous Infusion Doxorubicin for Treatment of Pediatric Hepatoblastoma: A Report From the Children’s Cancer Group and the Pediatric Oncology Group

TL;DR: Treatment outcome was not significantly different between regimen A and regimen B, and excellent outcome was achieved for patients with stage I-UH and stage II hepatoblastoma and for subsets of patients withStage III disease.
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Pretreatment prognostic factors for children with hepatoblastoma-- results from the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) study SIOPEL 1.

TL;DR: Tumour focality and enlargement of hilar lymph nodes at diagnosis were univariately associated with EFS, and in multivariate analysis, PRETEXT was the only predictor of OS; PRETEXT and metastases were predictors of EFS.
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Cisplatin, doxorubicin, and delayed surgery for childhood hepatoblastoma : A successful approach: Results of the first prospective study of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology

TL;DR: PLADO chemotherapy and delayed surgery are regarded to be the best available treatment for children with HB and other treatment programs should be measured against this standard.
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