Mertens, Ann C., Liu, Qi, Neglia, Joseph P., Wasilewski, Karen, Leisenring, Wendy, Armstrong, Gregory T., ...
Background The proportion of pediatric and adolescent cancer patients surviving 5 years has increased during the past four decades. This growing population of survivors remains at risk for disease-...
Henderson, Tara O., Whitton, John, Stovall, Marilyn, Mertens, Ann C., Mitby, Pauline, Friedman, Debra, ...
Background Childhood cancer survivors are at increased risk for the development of secondary sarcomas. Exposure to radiation therapy is a known risk factor for the development of these sarcomas....
Cécile M. Ronckers, Alice J. Sigurdson, Marilyn Stovall, Susan A. Smith, Ann C. Mertens, Yan Liu, ...
Neglia, Joseph P., Robison, Leslie L., Stovall, Marilyn, Liu, Yan, Packer, Roger J., Hammond, Sue, ...
Background: Subsequent primary neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS) have frequently been described as late events following childhood leukemia and brain tumors. However, the details of the...
Day Care, Childhood Infections, and Risk of Neuroblastoma (2004)
Menegaux, Florence, Olshan, Andrew F., Neglia, Joseph P., Pollock, Brad H., Bondy, Melissa L.
Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer in infants worldwide, but little is known about its etiology. Infectious etiologies involving the immune system have been hypothesized for some childhood...
Cancer Risk in Nontransplanted and Transplanted Cystic Fibrosis Patients: A 10-Year Study (2003)
Maisonneuve, Patrick, FitzSimmons, Stacey C., Neglia, Joseph P., Campbell, Preston W., Lowenfels, Albert B.
Background: Cancer in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common genetic disorder in Caucasians, has been a rare event. However, more patients now reach adulthood, and more patients undergo...
Yasui, Yutaka, Liu, Yan, Neglia, Joseph P., Friedman, Debra L., Bhatia, Smita, Meadows, Anna T., ...
Survival of childhood cancer patients has increased remarkably in the last several decades due to therapeutic improvements. Associated with this progress is the emerging need to accurately...
Neglia, Joseph P., Friedman, Debra L., Yasui, Yutaka, Mertens, Ann C., Hammond, Sue, Stovall, Marilyn, ...
Background: Because survival rates among childhood cancer patients are increasing, assessing the risk of second and subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMNs) is ever more important. Using the Childhood...
Breast-Feeding and Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia (1999)
Shu, Xiao Ou, Linet, Martha S., Steinbuch, Michael, Wen, Wan Qing, Buckley, Jonathan D., Neglia, Joseph P., ...
BACKGROUND: Breast-feeding is well known to have a protective effect against infection in infants. Although the long-term effects of breast-feeding on childhood cancer have not been studied...
Fraser, Christopher J., Hirsch, Betsy A., Dayton, Vanessa, Creer, Michael H., Neglia, Joseph P., Wagner, John E., ...
Donor cell leukemia is a rare complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. A 12-month-old boy underwent unrelated donor umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) for refractory...
Mulrooney, Daniel A., Ness, Kirsten K., Neglia, Joseph P., Whitton, John A., Green, Daniel M., Zeltzer, Lonnie K., ...
Bluhm, Elizabeth C., Ronckers, Cécile, Hayashi, Robert J., Neglia, Joseph P., Mertens, Ann C., Stovall, Marilyn, ...
Second primary malignancies and premature death are a concern for patients surviving treatment for childhood lymphomas. We assessed mortality and second malignant neoplasms (SMNs) among 1082 5-year...