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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 ...
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, ...
New frontline high-risk neuroblastoma trial includes MIBG transplant
Pilot study: 131I-MIBG radiotherapy with chemotherapy after induction for newly diagnosed
Dr Greg Yanik (University of Michigan) presented preliminary results of the NANT (New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy) NANT-2001-02 phase 2 MIBG + CEM (131I-MIBG radiotherapy with carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan) stem cell transplant trial on June 23rd 2010 at the Advances in Neuroblastoma Research ...
