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Springer Cancer in Childhood 1st Editon 2013 Softbound by John O. Godden
Viewed as contributions to continuing medical education, many scientific meetings disappoint because, although program committees plan with care, bring together excellent faculty and expose them to their peers, to other physicians and to house staff. the effect is evanescent. Meetings expend much professional time and public funds to stimulate the relatively few who attend. Hence the dictum 'Hold a symposium and reach a few hundred; circulate a proceedings and reach the world. ' Despite this dictum, many organizers of scientific meetings shy away from the publication of proceedings. insisting that teachers will not participate if they have to prepare publishable manuscripts and, if they do agree to prepare them, will delay for months or, in some cases, will not come through at all. However, this is often a matter of organization and determination: e. g . . some program chairmen make the payment of expenses and honoraria contingent upon receipt of a publishable manuscript. Cox and his colleagues in Australia went one better: they organized the First International Cancer Conference in Sydney in November 1972 and published a two-volume proceedings ('Melanoma and Skin Cancer' and 'The Nature of Leukemia') before the meetings began. As Dr. Cox notes, 'This preprinting of the full papers freed each speaker from the necessity of recounting large quantities of data so that each paper could be opened more rapidly and provocatively and then defended in discussion' (Report of the International Cancer Conference, Med J A list, I: 12-33, June 24, 1972). Welcome to the Conference.- to the Conference.- Some Statistics on Childhood Cancer in Ontario.- The Manchester Children’s Tumor Registry.- Wilms’ Tumor: A Review of the Toronto Experience.- Neonatal Renal Tumors.- The National Wilms’ Tumor Study: A Progress Report.- Panel on Wilms’ Tumor.- Pathology of Tumors of the Testis in Children.- Management of Embryonal Adenocarcinoma of the Testis in Childhood: an Analysis of 164 Cases.- Malignant Ovarian Tumors in Children.- Tumors of the Brain in Infancy and Childhood.- Posterior Third Ventricle Tumors: Clinical Presentation and Role of Surgery.- Neuroradiology of Posterior Third Ventricle Tumors.- Pathology of Posterior Third Ventricle Masses.- Radiotherapy of Posterior Third Ventricle Tumors.- Panel on Management of Brain Tumors.- Histiocytosis X: Pathology.- Histiocytosis X: Management.- Radiotherapy of Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma.- Rhabdomyosarcoma in Childhood.- Malignant Liver Tumors in Childhood.- Neuroblastoma.- Immunological Aspects of Neuroblastoma.- Operative Treatment of Neuroblastoma and Rhabdomyosarcoma.- Panel on Rhabdomyosarcoma and Neuroblastoma.- Panel on Psychiatric Problems in the Management of Children with Malignancy.- The Value of Laparotomy in the Staging of Hodgkin’s Disease in Children.- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Children.- Burkitt’s Lymphoma.- Panel on Malignant Lymphoma.- Controlled Clinical Trials in Leukemia in Children.- Viral Infections in Acute Leukemia.- Bacterial Infection in Leukemia.- Methotrexate Toxicity.- Uric Acid Metabolism in Malignancy.- Panel on Selected Problems in Management of Acute Leukemia.