Pediatric and Adolescent Osteosarcoma

General Aspects of Osteosarcoma.- The Epidemiology of Osteosarcoma.- The Etiology of Osteosarcoma.- Imaging Assessment of Osteosarcoma in Childhood and Adolescence: Diagnosis, Staging, and Evaluating Response to Chemotherapy.- Osteosarcoma Multidisciplinary Approach to the Management from the Pathologist’s Perspective.- Conditions that Mimic Osteosarcoma.- Treatment.- Surgical Management of Primary Osteosarcoma.- The Role of Radiotherapy in Oseosarcoma.- Osteosarcoma Lung Metastases Detection and Principles of Multimodal Therapy.- Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Metastases from Osteosarcoma in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients.- Non-Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary and Extra-pulmonary Metastases.- Review of the Past, Impact on the Future.- Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Osteosarcoma.- Osteosarcoma: Review of the Past, Impact on the Future. The American Experience.- Osteosarcoma: The European Osteosarcoma Intergroup (EOI) Perspective.- The Treatment of Nonmetastatic High Grade Osteosarcoma of the Extremity: Review of the Italian Rizzoli Experience. Impact on the Future.- Osteosarcoma: The COSS Experience.- Treatment of Osteosarcoma. The Scandinavian Sarcoma Group Experience.- Childhood Osteosarcoma: Multimodal Therapy in a Single-Institution Turkish Series.- International Collaboration is Feasible in Trials for Rare Conditions: The EURAMOS Experience.- Pediatric and Adult Osteosarcoma: Comparisons and Contrasts in Presentation and Therapy.- Supportive Care and Quality of Life.- The Role of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Pediatric and Adolescent Patients with Osteosarcoma.- Caring for Children and Adolescents with Osteosarcoma: A Nursing Perspective.- Prosthetics for Pediatric and Adolescent Amputees.- Functional, Psychosocial andProfessional Outcomes in Long-Term Survivors of Lower-Extremity Osteosarcomas: Amputation Versus Limb Salvage.- Research and Investigation: New and Innovative Strategies.- Bridging the Gap Between Experimental Animals and Humans in Osteosarcoma.- Is There a Role for Immunotherapy in Osteosarcoma?.- Molecular Classification of Osteosarcoma.- Current Concepts on the Molecular Biology of Osteosarcoma.- How the NOTCH Pathway Contributes to the Ability of Osteosarcoma Cells to Metastasize.- The Role of Fas/FasL in the Metastatic Potential of Osteosarcoma and Targeting this Pathway for the Treatment of Osteosarcoma Lung Metastases.- Bone Marrow Micrometastases Studied by an Immunomagnetic Isolation Procedure in Extremity Localized Non-metastatic Osteosarcoma Patients.- Strategies to Explore New Approaches in the Investigation and Treatment of Osteosarcoma.- History of Orthopedic Oncology in the United States.

From the reviews:

“One of the monographs in the Cancer Treatment and Research series … reproduces papers given at a symposium on osteosarcoma held at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in March 2008. … appeal to those few oncologists, orthopedists, or radiation therapists who are actively involved in the treatment of patients with osteosarcoma. … The information is well presented and conforms to generally known and accepted current therapy. … can be used as a quick source of good and thorough basic information.” (Robert M. Arensman, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2010)