The aim of the study was to assess rates and types of nephrectomy-related complications in children nephrectomized for nephroblastoma after preoperative chemotherapy. Records of 598 Wilms' tumour patients registered in the International Society of Paediatric Oncology Trial & Study No. 9 (SIOP-9), and pretreated correctly according to the protocol with vincristine + actinomycin D +/- epirubicine or adriamycin prior to nephrectomy, were retrospectively reviewed. Forty-nine patients (8%), who suffered from 54 complications, were identified. Most frequent events were small-bowel occlusions (3.7%) and tumour ruptures (2.8%). Other complications were registered in 2.0% of cases. The low rate of nephrectomy complications and no deaths related to registered ones, are another argument for preoperative chemotherapy in Wilms' tumour patients.
sIL-2R alpha and LDH were [corrected] proven to be promising markers [corrected] for diagnosis and treatment monitoring in children with STS. The markers [corrected] correlated also with some [corrected] important prognostic clinico-pathological factors for childhood [corrected] STS; however, they [corrected] failed to predict EFS and OS. Measurements of serum [corrected] B2-M were shown [corrected] to have no clinical value in the diagnostics, prognostics and treatment monitoring in paediatric STS.
ALL patients are less susceptible to underweight than the patients with the solid tumor. Moreover, the high incidence of overweight in children with ALL is noteworthy.
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