36th Annual Meeting of Nordic Society for Paediatric Haematology

NOPHO (Nordic Society for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology) organization unites specialists in childhood cancer in the Nordic countries. Two years ago Lithuania joined the NOPHO society as a full member. Due to the close collaboration within the NOPHO by using common protocols for treatment of different solid tumours as well as acute leukaemias (both AML and ALL), survival rates of children with cancer in the Nordic countries are among the best in the world.

Annual meetings is a good platform to discuss achievements and new ideas, and also to invite international experts to shear their experience. Meeting is going to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the Radisson Blu Hotel Lithuania hotel on June 1-5, 2018. The meeting is going to be held together with the Nordic Society of Pediatric Oncology Nurses (NOBOS). Three joint lectures are planned for both nurses and doctors (June 2, 3 and 4). Three days scientific program is planned for June 3-5. Educational session for young colleagues will be arranged on June 2. NOPHO scientific working groups will have their working groups meetings (June 1-2). The moto for the Vilnius meeting is “multidisciplinary  approach is the way to excellence”. A number of distinguished lecturers are invited as key-lecturers from Denmark, Sweden, UK, Canada, United States, Germany, Poland: • Survivorship passport (Assoc. Prof. Lars Hjorth, Lund, Sweden) • Cancer predisposition in brain tumours (Dr. Uri Tabori, Toronto, Canada) • Immunotherapy in solid tumours/neuroblastoma (Prof. John Anderson, London, UK) • Radiotherapy in solid tumours in children (to be announced) • Ethical aspects in the era of germline sequencing (Prof. Ayo Wahlberg, Copenhagen, Denmark) • Ewing sarcoma (Prof. Stefan Burdach, Munchen, Germany) • Surgery in childhood solid tumours/hepatoblastoma (Prof. Piotr Czauderna, Gdansk, Poland) • Thrombotic microangiopathy (Dr. Sonata Jodele, Cincinnati, USA) • Ethical issues in paediatric oncology/haematology (to be announced)

Kontaktperson: 

Arja Harila-Saari
E-post: arja.harila-saari@ki.se

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