[New and traditional directions in the biology and management of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia].

Owing to clinical trials and improvement over the past few decades, the majority of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) survive by first-line chemotherapy and combat with the problems of returning to community. However, many patients may have severe acute or late therapeutic side effects, and the survival rate in some groups (e.g.

[Results of the treatment of pediatric osteosarcoma in the Hungarian population].

The objective of this report was to estimate long-term outcome and prognostic factors in children and adolescents with osteosarcoma. To evaluate the efficacy of surgery and multiagent chemotherapy for treating osteosarcoma, we reviewed 122 cases (65 males, 57 females, mean age 13.8 ± 3.