Obituary: Danièle Sommelet

Overview Clinical trials in Paediatric Neuro-oncology

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The Lancet Oncology Webinars Sustainable care for children with cancer: a Lancet Oncology Commission About the webinar: Cancer kills more than 100,000 children each year, and yet 80% of paediatric cancers are curable with currently available interventions. Notably, the majority of these deaths occur in low‐income and middle-income countries. Yet no reliable data are available in low-income and middle-income countries on the burden of childhood cancer; on the cost of effective interventions; on current health coverage levels; or on the cost, feasibility, or health and economic benefits of scaling-up effective coverage. In March, 2020, The Lancet Oncology published a Commission on Sustainable care for children with cancer, which provided a new analysis of the global childhood cancer burden and developed an economic investment case and evidence-based medical framework for implementing, integrating, and scaling up care pathways for childhood cancer. Join Dr. Ali Landman, Deputy Editor of The Lancet Oncology, and Commission authors, as they discuss the aims, findings, and recommendations from the Commission. This Lancet Webinar, co-hosted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is organised as part of London Global Cancer Week, sponsored by The Lancet Oncology. Commissioner presenters: Claudia Allemani, LSHTM, London, UK @LSHTM Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA @StJudeResearch Kathy Pritchard-Jones, UCL Great Ormond Street, London, UK & President, International Society of Paediatric Oncology @kpj202 @UCLchildhealth @worldSIOP Rifat Atun, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA @RifatAtun @HarvardChanSPH Link to register for the webinar: https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/publishing-premium-journals/lancet/sustainable-care-children-cancer-lancet-oncology-commission

Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to invite you to join The 19th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO 2020). ISPNO is the most prominent international scientific meeting for pediatric neuro-oncology. ISPNO 2020 will be held at Karuizawa Prince Hotel West between December 13 (Sun) – 16 (Wed), 2020. ISPNO 2020 is a hybrid meeting, and you have a choice to attend in-person onsite or remotely online. In the Main Program, we have a fantastic line-up of 80 invited lecturers who will give a live talk and Q&A either onsite or online, which will be broadcasted by live streaming. The live streaming contents will be recorded and posted in the On-Demand Program after the symposium. In the On-Demand Program, all 858 accepted abstracts and 13 Education Day lectures will be made viewable from December 13, 2020 until February 13, 2021 for all registrants. You will find more details on our website (http://ispno2020.umin.jp). This is the first ever hybrid meeting for ISPNO. It is a great opportunity to watch the lectures by the world’s experts and gain access to the latest results of research/clinical trials of pediatric neuro-oncology from your home or workplace without having to travel. You are also most welcome to join in-person in Karuizawa if you could! And don’t miss out the Welcome Message from our ISPNO 2020 lecturers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFbaV_Um30 Make sure to watch till the end to see how we made the video... Please register now to join ISPNO 2020. We offer a very competitive registration fee for virtual and in-person participation. The success of ISPNO 2020 depends upon your support! http://ispno2020.umin.jp/registration/index.html We look forward to welcoming you to ISPNO 2020 in Karuizawa, in person or virtually!

Option 1: Joining via laptop/cellphone using data (internet) Click: https://zoom.us/j/93180618586 Meeting ID: 931 8061 8586 Meeting Password: 553395 Register for the session (Mandatory) https://forms.gle/4VD5P5fxzSbAME3NA Paediatric Neuro Oncology Video Linked Lecture Series by International Faculty A close up of a logo Description automatically generated Tuesday, 20, October, 2020 (05:00pm – 06:00pm) (Pakistan Time) Via Zoom ================================================================== Topic : “Palliative Care for Children with Brain Tumors”​ ​International Faculty Speaker: Dr Justin Baker MD, FAAP, FAAHPM Chief, Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care Attending Physician, QoLA Team (Quality of Life for All) Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program Full Member, Department of Oncology St Jude Children's Research Hospital www.stjude.org/hemoncfellowship Moderator: Dr. Shahzadi Resham Assistant Professor Paediatric Palliative Care Physician Paediatric Hematologist & Oncologist Department of Paediatrics & Child Health ================================================================== Organized by: Pediatric Oncology Section / Department of Oncology The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi