How Do You Treat Neuroblastoma?
Neuroblastoma is a tumor arising from immature nerve cells. It is the most malignant tumor of the abdomen in infants and the most common solid tumor in children not affecting the brain. A neuroblastoma is one of the few malignancies where a positive prognosis can be achieved when residual tumor has been left. It is also unusual in that a neuroblastoma can self-resolve. Read on to learn more about how to treat neuroblastoma. Use chemotherapy for advanced stage neuroblastomas. Infants receiving chemotherapy and surgery for disseminated neuroblastomas have favorable outcomes, but children older than one year have poor survival rates. The most common chemotherapeutic agents are cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, etopsice and teniposide. Perform surgery as the treatment of choice on low and intermediate stage neuroblastomas. The objectives of surgery are to confirm the diagnosis, remove the entire tumor and provide surgical staging. Secondary surgeries also are performed as adjuvant
