Saturday, October 30

Closing Keynote: Dream. Believe. Achieve! (104)

Shannon Bahrke will take you on a thrilling journey of her success through pivotal points in her 12-year career on the U.S. Ski Team. She will reveal how she overcame obstacles, doubts, and fears to ultimately earn two Olympic medals. Shannon will also share how the same mindset, tools, and strategies directly correlate to business and how everyone can execute them to achieve their maximum potential!

Treating Smarter, Not Harder: Abandoning Intensification and Replacing with Immunotherapy for Patients with Down Syndrome and B-ALL (C234)

Children with Down syndrome (DS) have a striking predisposition for developing acute leukemia, with a 40-fold increased risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) compared to non-DS patients (Wadhwa et al, 2017). Approximately 3% of children with ALL have DS, and these children have inferior outcomes and higher rates of treatment-related mortality (TRM) and are at greater risk of relapse (Buitenkamp et al., 2014).

Joint Topic: Survivorship — Taking the Survivorship Clinic Out of the Clinic: A multi-disciplinary clinic goes virtual (233-2)

Childhood cancer survivorship care is complex and often requires access to a multidisciplinary team. Signorelli et al. (2017) reported that survivors who are engaged in follow-up care have better health and educational outcomes.

Joint Topic: Survivorship — Survivorship: Let's Not Be Lost in Transition (233-1)

Childhood cancer cure rates have dramatically improved over the last 30 years, reaching approximately 85% (Chow et al., 2020). In total, approximately two-thirds of children diagnosed with cancer annually will survive for more than 5 years after diagnosis (Chow et al., 2020). But cure comes at a cost.