This Week in Pediatric Oncology Solving Kids' Cancer

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Listen in as our hosts, Dr. Tim Cripe & Dr. Brenda Weigel, are joined by Al Gustafson, from The Swifty Foundation, and Dr. Angela Waanders, from Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, to discuss the "Gift from a Child" program. This program is led by The Swifty Foundation & helps advocate and educate about post mortem pediatric brain tissue donations. Al & Dr. Waanders discuss the genesis of the program, what the program entails, as well as the benefits of tissue donations to empowering research.
To learn more about "Gift from a Child", please visit: https://www.giftfromachild.org/
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Listen in & join the TWiPO team in this special live recorded episode. Our host, Dr. Tim Cripe, along with his Nationwide Children’s Hospital colleagues, Dr. Ryan Roberts, Dr. Elaine Mardis & Dr. Katherine Miller, are joined by Dr. Trevor Pugh, who is a clinical laboratory geneticist from the University of Toronto in Canada. Tune in as they all discuss Dr. Pugh’s specialty in genomics & his recent work regarding the early identification of cancers in patients with Li Fraumeni Syndrome. 
To learn more about this study, visit https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.07.22280848v1.full.pdf
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Join our host, Dr. Timothy Cripe from Nationwide Children's Hospital, as he’s joined with Dr. Jim Geller from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to discuss his expertise in pediatric liver cancer - hepatoblastoma. In this episode, we are also specially joined by Kelly & Jessica Woolwine as they tell their story of how they navigated the hepatoblastoma landscape to seek treatment for their daughter, Charlotte.
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Our host, Dr. Timothy Cripe from Nationwide Children's Hospital, is joined by Dr. Martin McCabe from the University of Manchester to discuss the results of the rEECur trial. The rEECur trial is an international randomized trial conducted on recurrent and primary refractory Ewing sarcoma patients. Dr. McCabe leads a discussion on the genesis of rEECur, what it entailed & what was learned from conducting this trial.
 
To learn more about this trial, please visit https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/study-identifies-best-treatment-for-rare-childhood-cancer/
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Tune in as our host, Dr. Brenda Weigel from the University of Minnesota, is joined by Dr. Garrett Brodeur to discuss his expertise in genetic predispositions in childhood cancer. Dr. Brodeur is the Director of the Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) - and listen in as he discusses his journey leading up to cancer predisposition, what the program entails, as well as the process of screening & surveillance protocols.
To learn more about this program, please visit https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/hereditary-cancer-predisposition-program
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This Week in Pediatric Oncology #105 - January 3, 2023
Happy New Year from the TWiPO team! We are opening up this new year with an episode on building a pediatric cancer disease community. Our host, Dr. Timothy Cripe from Nationwide Children's Hospital, with special co-host, Donna Ludwinski from Solving Kids' Cancer, is joined by Ann Graham - Executive Director & Founder of MIB Agents. Listen in as they discuss Ann's personal cancer journey, how it spearheaded her own advocacy efforts, starting MIB Agents & their role in advocating within the childhood cancer research landscape.
To learn more about MIB Agents, you can visit https://www.mibagents.org/
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