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In a Danish multicentre open-label randomized trial involving 88 febrile episodes in 70 children with cancer and high-risk febrile neutropenia without microbiologically documented infection, stopping intravenous antibiotics after 48 hours of defervescence and clinical stability reduced antibiotic exposure compared with continuing until neutrophil recovery, with similar observed serious adverse-event rates and no deaths.
The trial provides direct evidence that clinically stable, afebrile children meeting the study's eligibility criteria can have empirical antibiotics discontinued earlier to reduce antibiotic exposure; it is reasonable to infer potential stewardship and toxicity benefits, but these were not directly demonstrated, and safety for rare outcomes remains uncertain because the trial was not powered for them.
This systematic review of 68 pediatric and adolescent ALL pharmacogenetic studies identifies toxicity-associated variants, including meta-analytic associations for NUDT15 rs116855232 with thiopurine myelosuppression and a TYMS enhancer repeat with osteonecrosis, while also reporting null associations and prioritizing candidates for validation.
The supplied evidence supports TPMT and NUDT15 genotyping as predictors of thiopurine toxicity; it further suggests—but does not prospectively establish—that TYMS, CEP72, HLA, and other prioritized variants could improve toxicity-risk stratification, treatment selection, or dose optimization in pediatric ALL.
In a single-centre phase 2 trial, 106 patients aged 16–60 years with relapsed or refractory acute leukaemia received organ-sparing total marrow and lymphoid irradiation plus high-dose cyclophosphamide and etoposide before allogeneic HCT, with an estimated 2-year progression-free survival of 34% and frequent grade 3–4 toxicities.
The trial provides evidence that 2000 cGy total marrow and lymphoid irradiation can be delivered with high-dose cyclophosphamide and etoposide before allogeneic HCT in this selected population; it supports—but does not prove—the hypothesis that targeting marrow and lymphoid tissues while limiting vital-organ irradiation could preserve antileukaemic conditioning intensity with acceptable organ toxicity and clinically useful disease control.
This systematic review synthesizes 26 preclinical and clinical studies plus 15 ongoing trials of GD2-targeted therapies in pediatric bone sarcomas, finding consistent preclinical antitumor activity but limited, heterogeneous clinical evidence, with encouraging signals for dinutuximab beta-based chemo-immunotherapy particularly in Ewing sarcoma.
The reviewed evidence supports GD2 as a candidate therapeutic target and suggests that combining GD2-directed agents with chemotherapy may enhance antitumor effects; it remains an inference—not an established clinical conclusion—that biomarker-selected patients with relapsed or refractory pediatric bone sarcomas could benefit from such combinations.
This workshop report prioritizes therapeutic strategies for high-risk rhabdomyosarcoma, including FGFR4-directed therapies, fusion-protein and transcriptional-regulator degraders, genotype-specific ROR2 targeting, B7-H3 antibody-drug conjugates, and rational MEK-based combinations.
The record supports these approaches as expert-selected research priorities rather than validated treatments; it hypothesizes that targeting subtype-specific drivers and surface antigens, or combining pathway inhibitors with chemotherapy, could improve efficacy or reduce toxicity in high-risk rhabdomyosarcoma.
In a single-center retrospective cohort of 30 children with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma who received more than five cycles of dinutuximab beta with chemotherapy, GM-CSF, and isotretinoin, response rates increased during extended treatment, including best responses after cycle 5, alongside substantial grade ≥3 toxicities.
The study provides preliminary clinical evidence that selected patients able to continue dinutuximab beta–based chemoimmunotherapy beyond five cycles may achieve additional or maintained responses; whether extending treatment itself improves survival or outweighs cumulative toxicity remains an inference requiring a controlled prospective comparison.
This systematic review and meta-analysis of 10 studies reports a pooled objective response rate of 42.35%, median progression-free survival of 23.03 months, and grade 3/4 adverse-event rate of 30.56% for BRAF- and MEK-directed therapies in children with BRAF V600-mutant low-grade glioma.
The supplied human evidence supports antitumor activity from BRAF inhibitors or BRAF/MEK combinations in pediatric BRAF V600-mutant low-grade glioma; it is reasonable—but not established—to infer that molecular selection could improve treatment outcomes or provide an alternative to chemotherapy, especially in relapsed or progressive disease.
This retrospective three-patient case series reports radiological shrinkage or stabilization and improved visual acuity, with only mild adverse events, in children with NF1-associated progressive optic pathway gliomas treated with selumetinib.
The reported cases provide preliminary human evidence that MEK inhibition with selumetinib can control progressive NF1-associated optic pathway gliomas while improving visual function; it is an inference, not established by this uncontrolled series, that selumetinib could replace or precede conventional chemotherapy as a less toxic first- or second-line treatment.
Multimodal profiling of pediatric T-ALL identifies broad but subtype-variable CD38 expression, links CD38 to polyamine metabolism, inflammatory signaling, and LCK activity, and reports improved survival in preclinical models when CD38 targeting is combined with DFMO or dasatinib.
The supplied evidence supports preclinical activity for combining CD38-directed treatment with DFMO or dasatinib; it is reasonable—but not clinically demonstrated—to hypothesize that these combinations could enhance CD38-targeted therapy and potentially reduce relapse in pediatric T-ALL.
In a nonprespecified secondary analysis of the 976-participant phase 3 KEYNOTE-716 trial, adjuvant pembrolizumab maintained a recurrence-free survival benefit in resected stage IIB/IIC melanoma when new primary melanomas were counted as events, while nonmelanoma skin cancers were less frequent and severe immune-mediated skin reactions were more frequent than with placebo.
The randomized trial evidence supports adjuvant pembrolizumab as improving recurrence-free survival in high-risk stage II melanoma; the additional hypothesis that PD-1 blockade may reduce subsequent nonmelanoma skin cancers is plausible from the observed counts but remains inferential because this analysis was not prespecified, and pediatric-specific benefit cannot be determined from the supplied record.
This systematic review of 24 studies comprising 1,110 children and adolescents after chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia reports heterogeneous and frequently low protective antibody levels across multiple vaccine antigens, particularly pneumococcal and meningococcal antigens.
Evidence in the review supports clinically relevant loss of vaccine-associated antibody protection after chemotherapy; it is an inference, not directly tested here, that routine post-chemotherapy booster vaccination irrespective of serological status could improve protection against vaccine-preventable infections.
In a randomized open-label phase 2 trial of 63 adult women with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, TSL-1502 at 500 mg produced a 55.6% objective response rate, 8.8-month median progression-free survival, and fewer grade ≥3 treatment-related adverse events than investigator-selected chemotherapy numerically, although estimates were imprecise.
The trial provides evidence that the glucuronide PARP-inhibitor prodrug TSL-1502 has antitumor activity and manageable toxicity in adults with germline BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer; it remains an inference—not demonstrated here—that prodrug targeting improves therapeutic index over conventional PARP inhibitors or that these findings apply to pediatric or adolescent cancers.