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When a Child’s Cancer Resists Treatment: The Potential of Immunotherapy
This encouraging presentation from pediatric hematologist-oncologist Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD, director of UCSF’s pediatric immunotherapy program, focuses on relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer.
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Cancer Syndromes in Children: An Expert on Screening and Surveillance
Genetic testing and early intervention can have benefits ranging from preserving vision – as in the case of retinoblastoma – to preserving lives. Jennifer Michlitsch, MD, discusses how to identify patients at risk, take informative family histories, and ensure care reflects the needs and values of individual families.
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Optimizing the Health of Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Guide for Primary Care
Hematologist-oncologist Robert Raphael, MD, director of the Pediatric Survivorship Program, lays out keys to protecting these patients’ physical as well as mental health.
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Early Phase Pediatric Cancer Clinical Trials
The Precision Cancer Medicine Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals provides unparalleled expertise as one of the nation’s pre-eminent programs for advanced, molecularly focused pediatric cancer diagnosis and care.
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Pediatric Specialty Care in the Time of COVID: Managing Blood Disorders and Cancer
Two UCSF pediatric hematologist-oncologists discuss COVID risks for pediatric patients with sickle cell and other blood diseases or cancer. Guidance includes which children need hospitalization, when to give preventive therapies for coagulopathies, and when to delay – or not delay – regularly scheduled treatments.
