Epidemiology and Outcomes Network Invitation Session (pdf)

Date: Thursday – October 17th, 2024

Time: 13:00-15:45 (Honolulu time)

Number of participants: 50

Room name: 303B, on Level 3 of the Congress Venue HCC

Invitation to SIOP members to join an informal discussion session with the leaders of the BENCHISTA project (international benchmarking of childhood cancer survival by stage). This project will be presented as an example of how SIOP members can encourage and support closer working between clinicians, cancer registries (population-based and clinical/hospital-based) and data scientists to accelerate outcomes research and understanding of survival variation at the population level.

Chairs: Erin Marcotte (USA) and Kathy Pritchard-Jones (UK)

13.00 Welcome and Opening remarks

SIOP Epidemiology and Outcomes Network co-chairs:

Prof Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (India) and Erin Marcotte (USA)

13.15 The BENCHISTA project – International Benchmarking of Childhood Cancer survival by Stage

Laura Botta (Italy) & Kathy Pritchard-Jones (UK)

§ Presentation of the project and key findings

§ Plans for phase II – invitation to new participants (cancer registries/countries) to join

§ Learning from the project regarding data-sharing for similar work in the future

14.15 Opportunity for network members to highlight their work or ideas of relevance to the SIOP Epidemiology and Outcomes network.

15.00 Final Discussion & Closing remarks

15.45 End of meeting