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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric radiation therapy presents unique challenges compared to adult treatments, including those of immobilization, potential need for sedation, and the critical importance of accurate, reproducible positioning. Additionally, heightened attention to imaging doses is necessary to minimize long‐term toxicity in survivors.
Parham Alaei +17 more
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Social SciencesIslands and island communities are often perceived as homogenous in mainstream discourse. While many islands share characteristics, such as smallness or isolation, these are experienced differently across and within island contexts and intersect with ...
Sissal Dahl +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Despite 5‐year survival rates of over 90% among children and adolescents/young adults (CAYAs) with classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), 15%–20% relapse after frontline therapy. Prior analysis of frontline Children's Oncology Group (COG) clinical trials demonstrated that, despite similar rates of relapse, non‐Hispanic Black (NHB) and ...
Mallorie B. Heneghan +14 more
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ASSIST: Refinement of a Benefits Navigator Intervention Among Low‐Income Pediatric Oncology Families
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Children with cancer living in poverty experience worse survival and quality of life. Interventions connecting low‐income families to benefits (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] improve health outcomes; yet nearly 50% of SNAP‐eligible pediatric oncology families are unenrolled.
Puja J. Umaretiya +11 more
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Islandness or Smallness? A Comparative Look at Political Institutions in Small Island States [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2006 In order to explicate the relevance of the island dimension for political categories, for each of seven political institutions, a series of four comparisons are conducted on a global basis.
Dag Anckar
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Comment l’île Maurice est-elle devenue Covid free ?
EchoGéo, 2021 After being affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in March 2020 and having implemented a whole series of sanitary measures, Mauritius has become, for more than ten months, one of the few Covid-free States on the planet, until a new epidemic wave hits it ...
Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Neurotoxicity is a rare, often dose‐limiting adverse effect of methotrexate (MTX) therapy that disproportionally affects Latino children. Factors contributing to the observed disparity are not well understood. This study leveraged admixture mapping to identify genetic regions associated with MTX‐related neurotoxicity susceptibility ...
Rachel D. Harris +24 more
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Issues and Tensions in Island Heritage Management: A Case Study of Motuihe Island, New Zealand [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2010 This paper draws on a New Zealand case study, Motuihe Island, to examine the challenges of conserving cultural heritage in places renowned for natural heritage values.
David Bade
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Bounded by heritage and the Tamar: Cornwall as ‘almost an island’
Island Studies Journal, 2020 This article considers the manner in which the English county of Cornwall has been imagined and represented as an island in various contemporary contexts, drawing on the particular geographical insularity of the peninsular county and distinct aspects of ...
Philip Hayward, Christian Fleury
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Island Studies. Island Geography. but What is an Island? [PDF]
Miscellanea Geographica, 2011 Island Studies. Island Geography. but What is an Island? Introduction. There are institutes which research phenomena and processes taking place on islands. Such research is conducted nowadays among others at universities in France, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and ...
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