Assorted News from the Last Week:

CAC2 Guest Blog Post–The National Cancer Institute (NCI) will host the CCDI Symposium this October and bring together the childhood cancer community to learn about CCDI programs and resources intended to advance research and clinical care—with the aim of fostering collaboration, innovation, and transformative strategies. 

Adults who survived childhood cancer are at increased risk of severe COVID-19.

Inflammatory markers including NLR, AFR and SII as prognostic factors in neuroblastoma.

New software tool could help better understand childhood cancer.

‘Our sister died of cancer because of our mum’s conspiracy theories‘

Deep learning strategies for semantic segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multiparametric MRI.

Oversimplifying childhood cancer leads to missed opportunities for better care.

After studying the health of nearly 2.5 million children, members of the Swedish Karolinska Institutet found an increased risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia during these events – and not in similar emergency “C-section” procedures.

Upcoming Webinars, Online Opportunities, and Meetings:

Entertainment to Affect Change (E2AC) invites you to attend the Boston screening of Seeing a Different Future, a documentary film focused on the people and partnerships that together led to meaningful progress in the treatment of the most common type of pediatric brain tumor at WBUR CitySpace, Boston, 6:00 pm ET on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Click here for event details and to reserve your seat.

Austin Hatcher Foundation will hold its18th annual Celebration of Life and Hope on September 20 at 7:00 ET. Click here for more information and to register.

Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing is pleased to announce Race Against Kids’ Cancer (RAKC), which will be at High Plains Raceway where these wonderful cars of all years and vintages are invited to gather to celebrate this class and September 27-28.  Click here for more information and to register.

NCI Office of Data Sharing will host a Data Jamboree that focuses on finding and accessing datasets, building specific pediatric cancer cohorts, and aggregating or linking datasets from various data systems still present tremendous challenges for the wider research and care community, on September 29 and 30, 2025.  Click here for more information and to register.

Take Action:

The Childhood Cancer Data Jamboree (https://events.cancer.gov/nci/ods-data-jamboree) will be held on September 2025, 09/29 – 09/30. Interested individuals are highly encouraged to join this event, register and submit a project abstract summary concurrently. Before submitting a project abstract, interested folks are encouraged to identify potential datasets to be accessed and used, and tools if applicable (see Resources) to solve a specific question. The project abstracts will be reviewed and selected by a committee after the due date of June 23. Even if they are just looking to join a team without proposing project ideas, they can submit an abstract indicating their areas of interest. Travel sponsorship will be considered once the project is selected and their attendance confirmed.

The National Academies Committee on Strategies to Enhance Pediatric Health Research Funded by NIH invites pediatric patients and their families to share their experiences, thoughts, and perspectives on NIH-supported pediatric research. Click for more information or  Click to submit your experience.