| The past, present, and future of paediatric neuro-oncology – using medulloblastoma as an example -- Professor David Eisenstat |
21 Apr 2021, 12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
Venue: Online via Zoom webinar only
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Synopsis
Medulloblastoma is the most common
malignant brain tumour of childhood. Despite multidisciplinary therapies
offered by neurosurgery, radiation oncology and paediatric oncology through
cooperative group clinical trials, there are significant late effects of
therapy, including but not limited to neuroendocrine deficits, neurocognitive
impairment and second malignant neoplasms. Furthermore, prognosis after relapse
is very poor. However, recent advances in the molecular genetic diagnosis and
tumour classification as well as delivery of precision radiation therapy using
proton beams allow the neuro-oncology team to personalize therapy as well as
consider novel treatments that may ameliorate the late effects of chemotherapy
and radiation.
Speakers
Professor David Eisenstat joined The
Royal Children’s Hospital as the Director of the Children’s Cancer Centre in
November 2020. He has also joined the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute as
a Group Leader in Cancer and Neuro-Oncology, and is an Honorary Professorial
Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.
From 2017 to 2020, Dr Eisenstat was
Professor and Chair of the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada with cross-appointments in the Departments of Medical Genetics
and Paediatrics. He held the endowed Muriel and Ada Hole Kids with Cancer
Society Chair in Paediatric Oncology from 2011 to 2020. David is the Specialty
Chief Editor, Section of Neuro-Oncology & Neurosurgical Oncology for both Frontiers
in Oncology and Frontiers in Neurology and serves on the editorial
boards for Neuro-Oncology, Neuro-Oncology Practice, and Molecular
and Cellular Biochemistry. David was the Scientific Chair of four Canadian
Neuro-Oncology meetings and co-chair of the Society for Neuro-Oncology
Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Basic and Translational Research Conference in San
Diego in 2015.
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