Standard of care for adult Wilms tumor? From adult urologist to pediatric oncologist. A retrospective review.

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Standard of care for adult Wilms tumor? From adult urologist to pediatric oncologist. A retrospective review. Via Association française pour l'étude du cancer Related Articles Standard of care for adult Wilms tumor? From adult urologist to pediatric oncologist. A retrospective review. Bull Cancer. 2020 Oct 28;: Authors: Sudour-Bonnange H, Coulomb-Lherminé A, Fantoni JC, Escande A, Brisse HJ, Thebaud E, Verschuur A Abstract Nephroblastoma or Wilms tumor, a common embryonal tumor in children, can occasionally occur in adults. The survival of patients older than 18 years is reported to be significantly inferior to that of pediatric patients. Establishing a diagnosis for these rare tumors can be challenging for both clinicians and pathologists, who are not accustomed to considering Wilms tumor as a potential differential in adults. This leads to misdiagnosis and a subsequent delay in the initiation of appropriate therapy. The standard of care is not well established for Wilms tumors in adults. We provide here a comprehensive review of the international literature on the subject with the current management protocols in France. We also propose the need of strong inter-disciplinary collaboration between surgeons, pathologists, and medical and pediatric oncologists for increasing knowledge and formulating treatment strategies for these rare tumors. Homogenous guidelines for treating adults with Wilms t umors have been proposed for all patients in France. PMID: 33129487 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.