Retinoblastoma

H Dimaras, TW Corson, D Cobrinik, A White… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a rare cancer of the infant retina that is diagnosed in approximately 8,000
children each year worldwide. It forms when both retinoblastoma gene (RB1) alleles are …

Retinoblastoma

R Rao, SG Honavar - The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2017 - Springer
Retinoblastoma represents 3% of all childhood cancers, and is the most common intraocular
malignancy of childhood. It is fatal, if untreated. White eye reflex, also known as leukocoria …

Intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma in 70 eyes: outcomes based on the international classification of retinoblastoma

CL Shields, FP Manjandavida, SE Lally, G Pieretti… - Ophthalmology, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To analyze our 5-year experience of intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) for
retinoblastoma as primary or secondary therapy. Design Retrospective interventional case …

Retinoblastoma: Review and new insights

CC Cruz-Gálvez, JC Ordaz-Favila… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Retinoblastoma (Rb), the most frequent malignant intraocular tumor in childhood, is caused
by mutations in the retinoblastoma gene (RB1) situated on chromosome 13q14. 2. The …

Targeted retinoblastoma management: when to use intravenous, intra-arterial, periocular, and intravitreal chemotherapy

CL Shields, SE Lally, AM Leahey… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Targeted retinoblastoma management: when to use intravenous,... : Current Opinion in
Ophthalmology Targeted retinoblastoma management: when to use intravenous, intra-arterial …

Green light‐triggered intraocular drug release for intravenous chemotherapy of retinoblastoma

K Long, Y Yang, W Lv, K Jiang, Y Li, ACY Lo… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Retinoblastoma is one of the most severe ocular diseases, of which current chemotherapy is
limited to the repetitive intravitreal injections of chemotherapeutics. Systemic drug …

Intravitreal melphalan for persistent or recurrent retinoblastoma vitreous seeds: preliminary results

CL Shields, FP Manjandavida, S Arepalli… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recurrent or persistent vitreous seeds following treatment of retinoblastoma
poses difficult management and often leads to enucleation. Objective To describe the …

Retinoblastoma

MV Ortiz, IJ Dunkel - Journal of child neurology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Retinoblastoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy of childhood. It typically
presents with leukocoria or strabismus. In later stages of the disease, the child may exhibit …

Cancers of the eye

A Maheshwari, PT Finger - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2018 - Springer
Ocular cancers are unique among the diseases of the eye, threatening both vision and life.
In most cases, the diagnosis can be made utilizing a careful clinical history and specialized …

[HTML][HTML] Co-delivery of miR-181a and melphalan by lipid nanoparticles for treatment of seeded retinoblastoma

SN Tabatabaei, RM Derbali, C Yang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
Melphalan is an efficient chemotherapeutic agent that is currently used to treat
retinoblastoma (Rb); however, the inherent risk of immunogenicity and the hazardous …