Background & Purpose Registry Personnel What is the Registry? What the Registry provides? What the Registry Wants? Enroll Basic Facts about PPB PPB Types: I, II & III Signs and Symptoms Age at Diagnosis / Gender / Laterality Prognosis Metastasis PPB Critical Issues Constitutional / Syndrome & Familial Disease Registry Personnel Radiography Surgery Pathology PPB Types: I, II & III Progression of Type Type I Pathology Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis Type II & III Pathology Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis Differentiation from Adult Pulmonary Blastoma Immunohistochemistry Ultrastructural Findings Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology Pathology of Metastases Recommended Path Studies Special Studies/Tumor Cytogenetics Pathology Consultation Recommendations Staging Treatment Lung Cysts Type I Type II and III Recurrences & Metastases Stem Cell Therapy Surveillance Appendix/Data Resources Forms, Schemas, and Roadmaps Consultation Enroll Now Basics of PPB What Causes PPB? Different Types of PPB Treatment Surgery Chemotherapy Radiation Therapy Does PPB Spread? Recurrence/Relapse Family/Genetic Issues Who Should Treat PPB? What Can Families Do? Enroll Now Definitions/Glossary Genetic Study/Tissue Bank For Families For Pathologists For Pediatric Oncologists, Data Managers, and Other Physical Caregivers All Forms Pathology Review and Tissue Submission Forms Parental Authorization Chemotherapy Schemas and Roadmaps

Constitutional & Familial Issues: Genetics of PPB: A Very Rare Disease: Enrolling Patients in the Registry Cerebral Metastases in PPB Genetic Study of PPB PPB Associated with Cystic Nephroma and Other Renal Tumors Type I PPB: Treatment Issues Type II and III THERAPY RECOMMENDATION CHANGE 04/09/2010 2010 PPB FAMILY WEEKEND IN WASHINGTON DC 02/15/2007 THERAPY CHANGE: PPB Types II and III 11/15/2006 PPB, Cystic Nephroma & Small Bowel Polyps 10/01/2005 Genetic Study in PPB - PPB Tissue Bank

Cerebral Metastases in PPB - Surveillance Recommended: Cerebral parenchymal metastasis is frequent in PPB. IT OCCURS EVEN WHEN CHEST DISEASE IS UBDER CONTROL. (See Priest et al. Cerebral Metastasis and other central nervous system complications of pleuropulmonary blastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2007; 49:266-273). Cerebral parenchymal metastasis is the most common form of hematogenous spread. It is more common in PPB than in any other childhood solid tumor. It occurs in Type II and Type III PPB. Life-table estimates of the probability of cerebral metastasis by 5 years from diagnosis are 54% in Type III PPB and 11% in Type II PPB. Cerebral metastases occur generally in the first two years after diagnosis but up to 5 years later. In 50% of cases of cerebral metastasis, the chest disease is under complete control. Cerebral metastasis has been successfully treated. The International PPB Registry recommends surveillance to discover cerebral metastases as early as possible. See For Doctors - Basics of PPB - Metastasis and For Doctors - Recommendations - Surveillance. Or contact the Registry for more information.

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