Pediatric transplantation
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Pediatric transplantation · Oct 2005
Megachemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation in children with Ewing's sarcoma.
Twenty-one children with high-risk Ewing's tumor received high-dose chemotherapy with a PBSCT. Aim of the study was evaluation of efficiency and safety of this procedure. All but three patients have meta-static disease at presentation. ⋯ Autologos transplantation in children with metastatic Ewing's sarcoma seems to improve their outcome. Patients with Ewing's sarcoma, resistant to conventional therapy and with recurrent disease did not benefit from megachemotherapy. New approaches such as anti-tumor vaccination or using of imatinib are reasonable to introduce in patients with relapsed or resistant to therapy Ewing's tumor.