Retinoblastoma Patient & Family Handbook

n WHERE CAN I GO FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT RETINOBLASTOMA? The following websites have a wealth of information about retinoblastoma:

www.cancerindex.org www.curesearch.org http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov www.instituteforfamilies.org www.retinoblastoma.net www.stjude.org

You also can consult the following supplemental educational booklet: My Fake Eye (English or Spanish) by Nancy Mansfield, Institute for Families of Blind Children, 1300 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027, 323/669-4649.

REFERENCES Gombos, D. S., & Chevez-Barrios, P. (2007). Current treatment and management of retinoblastoma. Current Oncology Reports , 9(6), 453–458. Hurwitz, R. L., Shields, C. L., Sheilds, J. A., Chevez-Barrios, P., Hurwitz, M. Y., & Chintagumpala, M. M. (2002). Retinoblastoma. In P. A. Pizzo & D. G. Poplack (Eds.), Principles and practice of pediatric oncology (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. Rodriguez-Galindo, C., Wilson, M. W., Haik, B. G., Lipson, M. J., Cain, A., Merchant, T. E., et al. (2003). Treatment of metastatic retinoblastoma. Ophthalmology , 110, 1237–1240. Rodriguez-Galindo, C., Wilson, M. W., Haik, B. G., Merchant, T. E., Billups, C. A., Shah, N., et al. (2003). Treatment of intraocular retinoblastoma with vincristine and carboplatin. Journal of Clinical Oncology , 21, 2019–2025. Shields, C. L., & Shields, J. A. (2004). Diagnosis and management of retinoblastoma. Cancer Control , 11(5), 317–326.

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