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Presentation Description:
This session  identified the two main “streams” in the current approach to care of the relapsed patient – the palliative perspective and the “aggressive” Phase 1 perspective – and elaborated on how these two streams co-exist within the current patient care model.

Speakers:
Adam Rapoport, MD, FRCPC, MHSc
Medical Director, Paediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT)
Hospital for Sick Children
Medical Director, Emily’s House Children’s Hospice
Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Brenda Weigel, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Lehman/Children’s Cancer Research Fund Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer; Chair, Children’s Oncology Group Developmental Therapeutics Committee
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis       

Note: POGO was not granted permission to share Dr. Brenda Weigel’s slides