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This symposium will highlight a spectrum of new developments and innovative advances in current pediatric oncology practice. The faculty — including leading experts from the top local and national cancer care institutions — will review the latest technologies and therapeutic approaches to challenging clinical problems, and will focus on evidence-based approaches to the special physical, emotional and psychological needs of pediatric cancer patients and their families.

Working in partnership to provide the best possible care for the communities they serve, two local leaders in healthcare Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, the area's largest, non-for-profit healthcare provider, and nonprofit Nicklaus Children's Hospital, part of Nicklaus Children’s Health System​ and the leading provider of children's healthcare services in South Florida – are collaborating to improve healthcare through continuing education.​

Topics This Year:

• T-cell Therapy for Pediatric Diseases
• Neurological Advances in Pediatric Brain Tumors
• Molecular Classification of Brain Tumors
• Ewing Sarcoma Update
• Robotics as and Enhancement to Cancer Surgery in Children

Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be better able to:

• Examine and have a better understanding of how T-cells are generated and currently used in the clinic.
• Describe intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring that has been successful to assist in the safe removal of tumors in eloquent areas of the brain.
• Assess molecular studies that have led to the identification of distinct tumor subgroups in pediatric brain tumors.
• Discuss available nutrition guidelines and best practices for the pediatric cancer patient survivor.

Who Should Attend?

• Pediatricians
• Pediatric Oncologists
• Hematologists/Oncologists
• Infectious Disease Pediatricians
• Pediatric General Internists
• Family Physicians
• Neonatologists
• ED Physicians
• Psychiatrists
• Others

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