This Week in Pediatric Oncology

In this episode Dr. Timothy Cripe and Dr. Brenda Weigel are joined by FDA's Dr. Nicole Drezner, pediatric oncologist and the Deputy Division Director of the Division of Oncology 2 who led the FDA review and publication on the approval of DFMO. Listen in on the discussion surrounding the historic approval of DFMO, the first ever oncology drug approved in the setting to prevent relapse using an external control instead of randomization.

Dr. Luca Szalontay,  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the work of Columbia's Initiative for Drug Delivery Innovation which is exploring new treatments for pediatric brain tumors utilizing Convection Enhanced Delivery and Focused Ultrasound. This initiative has launched a new clinical trial using Focused Ultrasound for patients with  progressive diffuse midline glioma (DMG)

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In this episode, our host, Dr. Timothy Cripe from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, is joined by Dr. Seth Rotz - pediatric hematologist/oncologist and the Director of the Fertility Preservation Program at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Listen in as they discuss Dr. Rotz’s career & specialty in fertility preservation for cancer patients: how he got into the field, what was needed to start the program, & the process and risks associated with oncofertility.

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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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