Novel therapeutic approaches in the treatment of children with hepatoblastoma. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2002 Dec;24(9):751-5
Date
12/07/2002Pubmed ID
12468918DOI
10.1097/00043426-200212000-00014Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0036899624 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 37 CitationsAbstract
Hepatoblastoma is the most common liver tumor diagnosed in children. Children with persistently unresectable disease, metastatic disease at presentation, recurrent disease, or slowly declining alpha-fetoprotein levels are at high risk for recurrence, exhibit an extremely poor prognosis, and are in desperate need of novel therapeutic agents and strategies. Four high-risk patients were treated. One patient with a local recurrence was treated with irinotecan followed by orthotopic liver transplant. Three patients were treated with tandem high-dose chemotherapy (HDT) with autologous stem cell rescue (two with primary metastatic disease and one with recurrent disease). All three of the patients treated with HDT had relapse (two of them subsequently received irinotecan); the remaining patient underwent surgical resection of a solitary recurrent pulmonary metastasis. Irinotecan demonstrated significant antitumor effects in all three treated patients and was well tolerated. None of the three patients treated with HDT remained disease-free, although the patient who underwent surgical resection of a solitary recurrent pulmonary metastasis remains disease-free 6 years from diagnosis. Further exploration of the use of irinotecan is warranted in high-risk patients with hepatoblastoma.
Author List
Katzenstein HM, Rigsby C, Shaw PH, Mitchell TL, Haut PR, Kletzel MAuthor
Peter H. Shaw MD Professor in the Pediatrics department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCamptothecin
Child
Child, Preschool
Hepatoblastoma
Humans
Liver Neoplasms
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
