Changes to This Summary (04/06/2009)
The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as
new information becomes available. This section describes the latest
changes made to this summary as of the date above.
Previously Untreated Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma
Added Raney et al. as reference 6.
Added text to state that the kidney is occasionally the primary site for rhabdomyosarcoma or undifferentiated sarcoma (cited Raney et al. as reference 43).
Added text about a study showing that consolidative immunotherapy incorporating T-cell reconstitution followed by a dendritic-cell plus tumor-peptide vaccine can be given with little toxicity to patients with translocation-positive metastatic or recurrent Ewing sarcoma and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (cited Mackall et al. as reference 78 and level of evidence 3iiiA).
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