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2012 AfterCare Education Day

Posted on February 7, 2013 by admin

POGO’s 2012 AfterCare Education Day examined selected clinical and psychosocial issues impacting childhood cancer survivors and provided delegates with theoretical knowledge and practical strategies to manage these issues in order to improve care provided to survivors of pediatric cancers. Pediatric oncologists, nurses, social workers, and other provincial interdisciplinary AfterCare staff working with childhood cancer survivors attended in order to enhance their knowledge of late effects associated with childhood cancer and to be exposed to new strategies to manage this unique patient population.

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NOTE: The content of each presentation below captures the unedited information and opinions presented by the speakers. Please note that the information contained in the presentations was current at the time it was presented – there may be further information in subsequent literature. Listed speaker credentials were current at the time of presentation.

Posted in 2012 AfterCare Education Day, Education for Health Professionals | Tagged 2012 AfterCare Education Day, AfterCare, late effects, survivors, survivorship

Thinking Outside the Scale – Reality Based Weight Management

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Presentation Description: If weight loss were as simple as ELMM (Eat Less, Move More) street, the world would be skinny.  Unfortunately, it is the nightmare on ELMM street belief, the belief that weight loss is about individual willpower that fuels societal attitudes towards obesity and weight management.  While these attitudes may hold reality television contestants in good standing, in actual reality settings, they tend to lead to frustration, struggle, suffering and ultimately, defeat.  Given the relationship between adult obesity and various forms of cancer, and given the fact that 75% of obese adolescents will continue to be obese adults, clearly, ensuring we do our utmost to help manage the weights of our young patients with cancer is crucial. So, do you treat the parents, the child, or both?  Is it about one particular style of eating?  What’s more important, exercise or food?  What’s a realistic goal?  How do you counsel without risking body image or food relationship issues?  This presentation explored the answers to these questions and more.

Speaker:

Yoni Freedhoff, MD, CCFP, Dip ABBM
Founder and Medical Director
Bariatric Medical Institute
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Posted in 2012 AfterCare Education Day, Education for Health Professionals | Tagged 2012 AfterCare Education Day, AfterCare, nutrition, obesity, survivorship

Preserving Fertility, Preserving Hope: Options for Children Facing Cancer Therapy – and Those who have Survived

Posted on February 7, 2013 by admin

Presentation Description: This presentation explores fertility preservation options for pediatric patients and associated challenges. For those who have not achieved sexual maturity, a potential option is vitrification of ovarian or testicular tissue in the hope that future laboratory science will be able to rescue and mature the immature gametes contained in the biopsied materials. For those who have achieved sexual maturity, the options are experimental but there is clinical experience. Finally, for those who missed fertility preservation but have viable gametes, premature reproductive senescence remains the principle concern.

Speaker:

Arthur Leader, BA, MD, FRCSC
Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Medicine
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Posted in 2012 AfterCare Education Day, Education for Health Professionals | Tagged 2012 AfterCare Education Day, AfterCare, female fertility preservation, male fertility preservation, survivorship

Genetic Predictors of Adverse Outcomes

Posted on February 7, 2013 by admin

Presentation Description: Advances in the treatment of pediatric cancer have resulted in significant improvements in cure rates and presently over 80% of children with cancer will be cured of their disease.  Unfortunately, this improvement has come at a significant cost as a large proportion of children are left with significant late effects that cause significant life-long morbidity and even mortality.  Therefore, a recent focus of research in pediatric oncology has been to investigate outcomes in long term survivors, in order to try and eliminate these late effects. The recent advances in genomic technology have allowed researchers to begin to try to unravel the causes of treatment toxicity, and to answer the question of why one child has a devastating complication of therapy, while a similar child receiving the same treatment does not have any toxicity. This presentation highlighted many of the recent advances in the understanding of drug toxicity in pediatric cancer, and specifically looked at three late effects: cisplatin-induced hearing loss, cardiac toxicity due to anthracyclines, and radiation and chemotherapy induced second malignancies.

Speaker:

Rod Rassekh, MD, MHSc
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC
Pediatric Oncologist, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC

Posted in 2012 AfterCare Education Day, Education for Health Professionals | Tagged 2012 AfterCare Education Day, AfterCare, anthracycline-associated cardiotoxicity, cisplatin-induced hearing loss, genetics, late effects, second malignancies, survivorship

Stem Cell Science: The Potential for Regeneration of Dysfunctional Tissues

Posted on February 7, 2013 by admin

POGO was not granted permission to post this presentation. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted in 2012 AfterCare Education Day, Education for Health Professionals | Tagged 2012 AfterCare Education Day, AfterCare, stem cell

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