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2013 Satellite Education Day

Posted on August 15, 2013 by admin

POGO’s 2013 Satellite Education Day examined clinical issues identified by health care providers working in community hospitals (designated satellite centres) that provide treatment to children with cancer in collaboration with academic health sciences centers. The program provided delegates with practical strategies to manage these issues in order to improve care provided to pediatric cancer patients.

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Did you miss the event? Check out the individual presentations below and watch this quick recap video:

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.

Brain Teaser: Optic and Other Low-Grade Gliomas

Posted on August 2, 2013 by admin

Presentation Description: Paediatric low grade gliomas (LGG) account for the largest group of intracranial and spinal tumours in childhood. When resection is possible, cure can be achieved by surgery only. The management of unresectable LGG is still unsatisfactory. Traditionally radiation was the standard treatment for these tumours. However, over the last 2 decades, multiple protocols of chemotherapy have been tested, and they have all demonstrated that chemotherapy can induce tumour shrinkage. Unfortunately, in the long term, only 30-40% of treated patients show sustained tumour control. This means that a majority of LGG patients will require more than one treatment.

This presentation provides an overview of the current knowledge, recent advances and future direction in the management of paediatric LGG.

Speaker:

Eric Bouffet, MD, FRCP(C)
Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program
The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Managing Psychosocial Impacts of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment on Patients

Posted on August 2, 2013 by admin

Presentation Description: Providing care to children with cancer involves physical care such as medication administration and symptom support. Another aspect of care that is important to provide is psychosocial care. This is particularly evident in the satellite setting as care is being provided closer to home, where the family is trying to cope with the diagnosis and treatment. The family must adapt to a new routine – balancing the ill child’s medical needs, as well as care of siblings and other family members, and loss of income and extra expenses.

This presentation will review actual cases to demonstrate the psychosocial needs of families with a child receiving cancer care in the satellite setting. We will examine how those needs were addressed and shared between the satellite centre and the tertiary centre, and challenges and potential solutions for providing ideal psychosocial care.

Speakers:

Lisa Egan-Bates, RN, BScN
Pediatric Oncology Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON

Karen Fung, MSW, RSW
Clinical Social Worker, Oncology Program
Patient Navigator, NAIT Program – Phase I / II Clinical Trials
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

Vicky Wilton, RN, BPHE
Pediatric Interlink Nurse
Northeast Cancer Centre, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON

Quick Hit – New Directions in Radiation Therapy

Posted on August 2, 2013 by admin

Presentation Description: There have been significant advances in the use of radiation for the management of pediatric malignancies over the last 10-15 years. In conjunction with advances in medical imaging, computer software, and linear accelerator hardware, radiation therapy has become significantly more accurate and more specific in delivering the high dose volume to the required tumour volume with much improved sparing of adjacent normal neural structures.

These advances have included CT/MR simulation, stereotactic radiotherapy, radiosurgery, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), and Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) with the use of CT which represent new technologies that are in the clinic today. Development and incorporation image guidance with the use of MRI and of molecular imaging techniques (Positron Emission Tomography (PET), MR spectroscopy, MR diffusion/permeability) will give us additional information as to the microscopic extent of tumour, and the use of these techniques during a course of radiation therapy will allow us to evolve our treatment to a so-called Adaptive Radiotherapy where frequent imaging during a 6 week course of RT will lead to a change in the high dose treatment volume eventually on a daily basis.

Speaker:

Normand J. Laperriere, MD, FRCPC, FRANZCR (Hon)
Department of Radiation Oncology
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Division of Hematology/Oncology
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

POGO Telephone Nursing Practice & Symptom Management Guidelines – An Overview

Posted on August 2, 2013 by admin

Presentation Description: As Pediatric Oncology healthcare continues to move away from hospitals, there has been a trend toward ambulatory nursing care in the tertiary and satellite programs. While this means that families are able to spend more time at home during their child’s treatment, being at home poses different challenges for them, as they have typically become accustomed to the support systems at the oncology inpatient units.

Pediatric Oncology Nurses noted they were managing symptoms and providing information, advice, and education over the phone without guidelines to assist them. To bridge this gap, POGO’s Provincial Nursing Committee developed a task force to help create guidelines to standardize telephone nursing practice; the goal being to give credible advice based on current literature in order to achieve safe and effective care for key concerns of the clients/families.

This presentation provides an overview of those guidelines, how they were formed, their implementation, and how they will be rolled out to both tertiary and satellite nurses in the near future

Speakers:

Bruna DiMonte, RN, BScN
Senior Database Administrator & Co-Privacy Officer
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Lisa Honeyford, RN, MN, CPHON
Advanced Nursing Practice Educator
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

Kaniska Young Tai, RN, BScN, CPHON
Outreach Clinical Program Coordinator
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

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