Cancer in Children

Edited by Michael C. G. Stevens, CLIC Professor of Paediatric Oncology, Institute of Child Life and Health, UHB Education Centre, Bristol, UK, Hubert N. Caron, Professor of Paediatric Oncology, Emma Kinder Ziekenhuis, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Andrea Biondi, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca; Director, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital S.Gerardo/Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy

Contributors:
C. A. Stiller, Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford, UK
A. Shah, Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford, UK
H. Kovar, Scientific Director, St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung e.V., Children's Cancer Research Institute, Wien, Austria
S. Izraeli, Associate Professor, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Keiran McHugh, Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Thierry Huisman
Arnauld Verschuur, Département de Cancérologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital d'Enfants de La Timone, France, and Department of Paediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital AMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michel Zwaan, Erasmus MC/Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mark Gaze, Department of Oncology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
Tom Boterberg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Professor of Paediatric Oncology, University College London Institute of Child Health and Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Professor of Medical Statistics, Center of Biostatistics for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Prevention, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Rupert Handgretinger, Chairman, Department of Hematology/Oncology and General Pediatrics, Children's University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
R. Maarten Egeler, Professor of Pediatric Hematology and Oncolog, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
J.C. Chisholm, Paediatric Oncologist, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton , UK
M.D. van de Wetering , Paediatric oncologist, EKZ/AMC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Martha Grootenhuis, Health and research psychologist, Psychosocial Department, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Esther Meijer-van den Bergh, Clinical psychologist, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Jantien Vrijmoet-Wiersma, Health psychologist, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Momcilo Jankovic, Pediatric Oncologist, Department of Paediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Hospital San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Michelle Koh, Palliative Care Consultant, Department of Palliative Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Finella Craig, Lead Palliative Care Consultant, Department of Palliative Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Joanne Wolfe, Director, Pediatric Palliative Care, Children's Hospital Boston; Division Chief, Pediatric Palliative Care Service, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Elizabeth Molyneux, Professor of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Blantyre 3, Malawi
Scott C. Howard, Department of Oncology and International Outreach Program, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
Lars Hjorth, Consultant Paediatric Oncology & Haematology, Department of Paediatrics Lund, Skåne University Hospital, Clinical Sciences Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Riccardo Haupt, Consultant Pediatrician, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Section, Scientific Directorate, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genova, Italy
Rod Skinner, Consultant / Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology/BMT, Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Leontien C.M. Kremer, Department of Paediatric Oncology, Emma Childrens' Hospital /Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Coordinator Editor of the Cochrane Childhood Cancer Group
Bob S. Phillips, Centre for reviews and dissemination, University of York, UK
Rob Pieters, Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Martin Schrappe, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Gertjan J.L. Kaspers, Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dirk Reinhardt, Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Medical School Hannover, Germany
Henrik Hasle, Professor, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark
Charlotte M. Niemeyer, University Children's Hospital, University of Freiburg, Germany
Angelo Rosolen, Clinica di Oncoematologia Pediatrica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
Thomas Gross, Gordon Teter Chair for Pediatric Cancer Research, andProfessor, Department of Pediatrics, OSU School of Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA
Robert J. Johnston, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
Dieter Korholz, Professor of Pediatrics, Director Clinic for children and adolescents, Martin Luther University halle/Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
W. Hamish B. Wallace, Consultant/Reader in Paediatric Oncology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
Sheila Weitzman, Associate Director (Clinical), Division of Hematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; and Professor of Pediatrics , University Of Toronto, Canada
M. Aricò, Director, Department Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer, Florence, Italy
Francois Doz, Department of paediatric oncology , Institut Curie, and Professor of Paediatrics, University Paris Descartes, France
Franck Bourdeaut, Department of paeditric oncology & INSERM U830, Institut Curie , Paris, France
David A. Walker, Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Stuart Smith, FRCS (Neurosurg), Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Frank Saran, Consultant Clincial Oncologist, Department of Paediatric Oncology, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
Gianni Bisogno, Hematology Oncology Division, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Padova, Italy
Andrea Ferrari, Pediatric Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
Michael Paulussen, Medical Director, Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln; Chair of Paediatrics, University Witten/ Herdecke, Datteln, Germany
Stefan S. Bielack, Klinikum Stuttgart, Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin - Olgahospital
Pädiatrie 5 (Onkologie, Hämatologie, Immunologie), Stuttgart, Germany
Herbert Jürgens, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinderheilkunde - Päd. Hämatologie/Onkologie, Münster, Germany
Mark L. Bernstein, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Norbert Graf, Director of the Department for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Saarland University, Medical Faculty, Homburg, Germany
Christophe Bergeron, Paediatric oncologist and Head of <"Institut d'Hématologie et d'Oncologie Pédiatrique>", Lyon, France
Angelika Eggert, Professor of Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital Essen, Germany
Alberto Garaventa, Head of Oncology Unit, Department of Heamatology-Oncology, Istituto Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital of Genoa, Italy
Gabriele Calaminus
James C. Nicholson, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Giorgio Perilongo, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital, University of Padua, Italy
Jozsef Zsiros, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital/Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guillermo L. Chantada, Principal Physician, Hemato-oncology service, Hospital JP Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Beatriz de Camargo, Instituto Nacional do Cancer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yves Reguerre, Oncologic Pediatric department, Centre hospitalo-universitaire, Angers, France
Daniel Orbach, Pediatric department, Institut Curie, Paris, France