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CNCF Parent Education Conference 2013
The 2013 CNCF Parent Education Conference will be held on June 28-30, 2013 at The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL. Subsidized hotel rooms are available at a rate of $65/night + tax..
Speakers will be :-
Dr. Timothy Cripe
Dr. Rupert Handgretinger
Dr. Paul Sondel
Dr. Araz Marachelian
Dr. Sam Volchenboum
Dr. Greg Yanik
Dr. Sue Cohn
Dr. Chrystal Louis
Hillary van Glatin Phd
Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...
NMTRC Symposium 2013
The 2013 NMTRC Symposium will be held on May 6-7, 2013 at WALT DISNEY WORLD®, Florida. For full details click on the image above or follow this link to the Van Andel Institute® website.
Advances in Neuroblastoma Research meeting June 18-21, 2012
Toronto, here we come!
This is arguably the most important meeting for neuroblastoma researchers and clinicians. Whereas meetings such as ASCO boasts upwards of 30,000 oncologists and researchers who share clinical findings on an annual basis, the entire pediatric oncology crowd only account for a tiny fraction of the attendees. By contrast, ANR welcomes 500 or more attendees who gather to discuss ...
Tübingen 2012 Neuroblastoma Symposium: from bench to bedside
Sincere appreciation is extended to NB Alliance UK for inviting me to attend this meeting and providing the travel funds.
This was the fourth meeting in a series on pediatric solid tumors and the first time the focus was on neuroblastoma. It was hosted at the Children’s Hospital (Kinderklinik) in the beautiful old city of Tübingen, which is home to the top ranked German University founded in ...
Neuroblastoma: From Bench to Bedside Symposium Feb 16-18, 2012
Two meetings of great interest are back-to-back this month. Unfortunately NB Globe will not be able to report first-hand on the Pediatric Cancer Translational Genomics Conference Feb 6-8 but news from a science writer employed to report on this meeting will be available — see the agenda here: https://www.tgen.org/tpcg/agenda.cfm
Following this is an exciting meeting on neuroblastoma is taking ...
New UK clinical trial for relapsed neuroblastoma planned
LONDON — November 7, 2011 — A new clinical trial testing 177Lutetium-DOTATATE (LuDO) for relapsed neuroblastoma is due to start in the UK next year. The UK is the first country to plan a clinical trial for this new molecular radiotherapy treatment for treating relapsed high-risk neuroblastoma, although it is already used to treat rare adult neuro-endocrine cancers.
Neuroblastoma is the ...
WHO SHALL LIVE AND WHO SHALL DIE?
Editor’s note on this note-worthy conversation: Mooki Salzman is a mother of a child diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. Mooki’s brother, Dr Yoram Unguru, is a pediatric oncologist and happens to be a leader in the field in bioethics with regard to pediatric oncology research.
They were invited to present on opposite sides of the question:
Are randomized clinical trials ethical for children ...
NB Parent Meeting in Central London July 23
July 23, 2011 ~ Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance (NCCA) Parent Meeting in Central London, UK
An open meeting for parents to meet and discuss NB topics. Donna Ludwinski will present history of frontline NB treatment, relapse therapies, and current research in US and Europe. Other speakers TBD. See meeting poster for details: NB Parent Meeting London 23 July 2011
http://www.childrenscancer.org.uk/
http://j-a-c-k.org/
Travel ...
ASCO 2011 ~ SIOPEN trial reveals better survival for BuMel for transplant regimen for neuroblastoma
Dr Ruth Ladenstein presents data in Plenary Session on randomized trial comparing BuMel vs CEM for transplant after Rapid COJEC induction
Considering that neuroblastoma accounts for 7% of pediatric cancers, and pediatric cancers comprises only 1% of adult cancers (that is .07% of all cancers, and high-risk NB makes up only half that number), it is really quite remarkable when highlighted presentations ...
ASCO 2011 ~ presentations of interest on neuroblastoma
ASCO meeting to convene this week
June 3 – 7 I will be in Chicago with 30,000 oncologists and oncology-related professionals (and 350 patient advocates) for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, easily the largest oncology meeting in the world. Over 4000 abstracts have been accepted and many different types of sessions are presented including Education, Special, Plenary, Oral ...
