Assorted News from the Last Week:

Black pediatric AML patients had more than twice the risk of acute kidney injury during treatment as their White counterparts.

Contemporary Ototoxicity Among Patients With High-Risk Neuroblastoma: A Report From the Children’s Oncology Group Study ANBL1531

Novel combination therapy could reduce leukemia relapse rate, extending window for bone marrow transplants

Indian Government plans childhood cancer Registry as the Country battles 75,000 new cases a year

Incidence and management of Chiari malformation in children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.

No decline in childhood cancer survival in Sweden during the pandemic

Precision-guided therapy in H3K27-altered diffuse midline glioma

Upcoming Webinars, Online Opportunities, and Meetings:

Following the cancellation of the 2025 Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) Symposium originally scheduled for last fall, NCI will inaugurate the CCDI Virtual Symposium Series in the coming weeks. Sessions will occur across multiple days in March and April.  Click Here to Learn More and Register.

Webinar sponsored by TPN.health “Invisible but Impacted: The Critical Role of Supporting Siblings in Peds/AYA Oncology Care” Noon ET on May 27.  Registration link.

SIOP Survivorship Special Interest Group and Childhood Cancer International SurNet host “Ototoxicity: Prevention Trials and Clinical Perspectives” on June 10 at 9:00 ET.  Click here for more information and to register.

“Capital, Risk, and Strategy: Rethinking How Pediatric Cancer Drug Development is Funded to Move Therapies Forward” sponsored by CureSearch at noon ET on June 16.  Click for more information and to register.

Started in 2017, the annual MIB Agents FACTOR conference brings together the leading researchers, clinicians, and surgeons, along with patient families and OsteoWarriors (survivors, patients, and siblings of OsteoWarriors and OsteoAngels) to Make It Better for those battling this disease.  This year the meeting will be in Columbus, Ohio June 25-27.  Click here for information and to register.

  Registration Now Open for the CAC2 Summit in Miami on July 22-24! https://invite.bublup.com/QvcRaOOFd78s

Recent Recordings:

Dr. Amos Burke gives a family-friendly explanation of the GLO-BNHL platform trial.

CAC2 Member Kylie McGrane-Zarnoch (A Moment of Magic) presents a TEDx-Talk-Syracuse University: When a Person Becomes a Patient: How do we protect a person’s identity when illness tries to redefine it?

All six sessions of the Neuroblastoma Parent Symposium webinar series are now available.