Carolina Witchmichen Penteado Schmidt - Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Pharmacists: The Gold Standard to Practice

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The outcome for children with cancer has shown enormous improvement over the last decades. In economically privileged countries, overall survival rates have now reached 80% at 5 years from diagnosis, and most of these young people will become long-term survivors.

Therefore, an optimal management of children with cancer is needed, based on knowledge of current treatment strategies. Treatment options in pediatric oncology are chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. However, some patients also require a stem cell transplantation to have a chance for cure.

Treatment of childhood cancer patients affects not only medical doctors or nurses but also pharmacists. Thus more and more knowledge about pediatric oncology pharmacy is required in daily practice. But up to now there is no book available for pharmacists who are involved in the field of pediatric stem cell transplantation to find the information they are looking for.

With this book Carolina Schmidt has closed that previous gap. After publishing several books about pediatric oncologic pharmacy like Drug Therapy and Interactions in Pediatric Oncology: A Pocket Guide, Chemotherapy in Neonates and Infants: Pharmacological Oncology for Children Under 1 Year Old, and Pediatric Oncologic Pharmacy: A Complete Guide to Practice, Carolina Schmidt addresses in this book a wide range of topics, for example, the background of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, its meaning in the various kinds of childhood cancer, graft-versus-host disease, and antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral prophylaxis.

All in all Carolina Schmidt has written an important book in a clear and professional style again. For the first time there is a book intended for all pharmacists who deal with the topic of stem cell transplantation for children and who want to find all needed information in one place. So I hope that the book will be widely distributed. I thank Carolina Schmidt for her innovative book idea and for the result of her work.

This book was possible due to the support of a lot of people. I would like to thank Vanessa Shimabukuro, my dedicated Springer editor, Anila Vijayan and her team, and the Springer team, for dedicating their time to transform a manuscript into a beautiful and easy-to-read book; the professionals and institutions who bought this book, which was written with a lot of work and dedication, with them in mind, to help in this journey to cure children; Frederico Schmidt, my husband, for his constant support; and my family, for supporting my work and Christian Mller, for the foreword.