List/Grid Monthly Archives: October 2010
SIOP 2010 ~ Therapeutic MIBG for neuroblastoma
“Meet the Experts” session
Drs Huib Caron (The Netherlands) and Suzanne Shusterman (Boston Childrens/DFCI) presented on MIBG therapy in “Meet the Experts” session Friday Oct 22 and Saturday Oct 23, 2010 at the SIOP meeting in Boston.
Completed and ongoing studies
Dr Caron covered the therapeutic considerations, and Dr Shusterman spoke about the practical and logistic issues ...
SIOP 2010 ~ Radiation in neuroblastoma
Dr Frank Saran from The Royal Marsden in the UK presented on neuroblastoma during the Paediatric Radiation Oncology Society (PROS) education session Wednesday October 20 at the SIOP meeting in Boston. Prior to his presentation we heard from other specialists on the challenges of using radiation for poor-prognosis brain tumors, particularly high-grade glioma. Other brain tumors discussed were ependymoma, ...
SIOP 2010 ~ Next week in Boston
The World of Childhood Cancer
This year Boston MA and Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s will host the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) October 20 – 24, 2010. This is the first time this meeting has been held in the US in 17 years.
Next week will be my first return to Boston since my son was treated there for neuroblastoma 1991-1993. I am deeply ...
Biggest news for neuroblastoma in a decade: ch14.18 plus GM-CSF and IL2
Rare news
A disease that afflicts only 350 children per year in the US (in the high-risk form) does not make headlines very often. But after the September 30, 2010 publication of the New England Journal of Medicine article revealing the results of the phase III chimeric antibody trial (ch14.18 given with two cytokines GM-CSF and IL2), neuroblastoma was all over the news including prime time national ...
