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In 135 children and controls, preoperative perceptual speech assessment found that children with posterior fossa tumours who later developed postoperative speech impairment had greater resonance and voice-quality abnormalities than tumour patients who retained habitual speech.
The observational findings support preoperative speech abnormalities as candidate risk markers for postoperative speech impairment; it remains an untested inference that using these markers for risk stratification or targeted speech prehabilitation would reduce severity, duration, or long-term consequences.
In a single-centre cross-sectional cohort of 117 children with unilateral non-syndromic Wilms tumour, isotopic GFR, albuminuria testing, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring identified renal abnormalities that were frequently not captured by creatinine-based eGFR, despite common contralateral compensatory hypertrophy.
The study provides evidence that multimodal renal surveillance can detect otherwise silent dysfunction in Wilms tumour survivors; it is reasonable but unproven to infer that earlier identification could enable nephroprotective monitoring or intervention and reduce later renal morbidity.
In a retrospective cohort of pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, broad-spectrum antibiotic administration within 60 minutes of emergency-department triage was associated with a lower incidence of sepsis than administration after 60 minutes (22.7% versus 54.5%).
Evidence: timely antibiotic administration was associated with less sepsis in this cohort. Inference: implementing a reliable Golden Hour pathway may reduce sepsis risk during febrile neutropenia in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but causality and clinical benefit require confirmation in larger, prospectively controlled studies.
This registered mixed-methods pilot protocol will culturally adapt a 10-session bereavement-focused parenting group for German families after a co-parent dies from cancer and assess its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary psychosocial effects in a target sample of 24–32 parents.
The record establishes only that the adapted intervention will be piloted; it is hypothesized, but not yet demonstrated, that structured support for bereaved parents could improve parental well-being, family coping, communication, and indirectly the well-being of minor children.
In a 7,393-patient observational AYA cancer cohort, a development-and-validation risk model predicted hospitalization or emergency department use 2-5 years after diagnosis with a validation AUC of 0.76 and high specificity and positive predictive value but low sensitivity.
The evidence shows that routinely available clinical variables can stratify early post-treatment acute-care risk; it remains an untested inference that embedding the model in electronic health records and directing supportive interventions to high-risk patients would reduce acute-care use or improve outcomes.
This single pediatric CML case identified an atypical in-frame BCR::SPECC1L::ABL1 transcript retaining the ABL1 tyrosine kinase domain and used FISH and targeted NGS for diagnosis and imatinib monitoring when standard p210 RT-PCR was negative.
The record shows that multimodal testing can detect and monitor this atypical fusion; it is plausible, but not demonstrated here, that retention of the ABL1 kinase domain could preserve sensitivity to ABL1-directed therapy such as imatinib.
This prospective longitudinal cohort of 63 boys with leukemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma reports largely reversible chemotherapy-associated testicular dysfunction but identifies delayed Sertoli cell maturation and persistent compensated Leydig cell insufficiency during follow-up.
The study provides evidence that serial AMH, inhibin B, FSH, LH, and testosterone measurements can identify evolving testicular vulnerability during and after chemotherapy; it is an inference, not tested here, that biomarker-guided surveillance could enable earlier endocrine referral or future fertility-preserving interventions.
This review describes how CSF cell-free DNA sequencing may complement tissue neuropathology in pediatric CNS tumors by supporting molecular diagnosis, classification, staging, residual-disease monitoring, and assessment of uncertain radiological progression.
The reviewed evidence supports CSF cell-free DNA as a source of tumor mutations, copy-number changes, methylation classes, and longitudinal burden measurements; it is reasonable but not yet proven to infer that using these findings for treatment selection or earlier detection of residual or progressive disease could improve outcomes.
A web-based survey of 19 responding Italian pediatric oncology-hematology centers found substantial variation in antifungal prophylaxis selection and an estimated invasive fungal disease incidence of 4.7%, with rates above 10% in several high-risk groups.
The survey provides evidence that prophylaxis practices vary and invasive fungal disease remains concentrated in high-risk populations; it supports, but does not test, the hypothesis that pediatric-specific guidelines and antifungal stewardship could standardize prophylaxis and potentially reduce infection burden or unnecessary antifungal exposure.
This review describes the shift in pediatric bladder/prostate rhabdomyosarcoma from radical upfront surgery toward fusion-informed risk stratification and multimodal, organ-sparing care coordinated by multidisciplinary surgical teams.
The review reports that contemporary chemotherapy, radiation, delayed surgery, and PAX-FOXO1–informed risk stratification are used to balance tumor control with bladder preservation; it further proposes, rather than directly demonstrates, that closer collaboration between pediatric urology and pediatric surgery may reduce protocol deviations, inadvertent upstaging, and operative burden.
This paper presents a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of adult and pediatric studies examining methadone-associated QTc prolongation and major cardiac events across opioid-use, cancer-pain, and surgical-pain settings.
The record provides no completed efficacy or safety results; it proposes that methadone may prolong QTc in a dose- and time-dependent manner, and it can be inferred that quantifying this association could eventually support safer dosing, monitoring, and treatment selection for pediatric cancer pain.
This systematic review of 32 studies reports that pediatric and adolescent DICER1-associated thyroid cancers are predominantly papillary or follicular carcinomas, may show capsular invasion, and reportedly infrequently metastasize to lymph nodes or distant organs.
The evidence supports DICER1 as a clinically relevant susceptibility and tumor-classification marker in pediatric thyroid cancer; it may inform genetic evaluation, surveillance, risk stratification, or treatment planning, but these applications are inferential because the review reports no therapeutic intervention or prospective clinical validation.