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The PanCareFollowUp team met for the virtual month 30 meeting. We are now halfway through this inspiring project! It is really impressive to see what progress has been made during the past years and how all pieces of the project are coming together to improve survivorship care across Europe.

PanCareFollowUp Coordinator Prof. Leontien Kremer (PMC) presented the project's latest results at the 7th ERN PaedCan General Assembly meeting on 20 May 2021. ‘European Reference Networks’ (ERNs) are a European Union initiative to facilitate cooperation across national health systems for the benefit patients. The ERN PaedCan is tackling 'inequalities in childhood cancer survival by providing [...]

Coordinator Prof. Leontien Kremer (PMC) presented 'How will PanCareFollowUp improve survivorship care in Europe?' at the 25th PanCare Meeting on 19 May 2021. She was joined by Rebecca van Kalsbeek who presented 'European PanCareFollowUp recommendations for surveillance of late effects in childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors'. Held virtually, the [...]

In this interview, we meet Jeroen te Dorsthorst and Dr. Edit Bardi from the PanCare network.   Please introduce yourself and share with us why you joined PanCareFollowUp. I am Edit Bardi. I am pediatric hematooncologist and immunologist and also a co-founding member of PanCare. My dream was to develop the best possible long term [...]

SIOP Europe's 2nd Annual Meeting brought together the diverse stakeholders who are invested in tackling key issues for children and adolescents with cancer, with the aim of increasing the cure rates and improving the quality of life for survivors. The Annual Meeting was held in partnership with survivor organisation CCI Europe's 11th CCI Europe Conference. [...]

In this interview, we meet Gisela Michel from the University of Lucerne.   Please introduce yourself and share with us why you joined PanCareFollowUp. I am an associate professor in health and social behavior at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. My background is in psychology and I have worked in the field of childhood [...]

In this interview, we meet Anita Kienesberger from CCI Europe in Vienna, Austria.   Please introduce yourself and share with us why you joined PanCareFollowUp. My name is Anita Kienesberger, I joined the project in my function as chair of CCI Europe, the European umbrella organisation for parent-, patient-, survivor- and childhood cancer organisations. For [...]

In this interview, we meet Rod Skinner from the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, UK.   Please introduce yourself and share with us why you joined PanCareFollowUp. My name is Rod Skinner. I am a Consultant in Pediatric and Adolescent Haemato-Oncology, working at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. I am [...]

In this interview, we meet Saskia Plujim from the clinical team at the Princess Maxima Center in the Netherlands.   Please introduce yourself and share with us why you joined PanCareFollowUp. I am Saskia Pluijm, senior scientist in the group of Leontien Kremer (survivorship and late effect research) in the Princess Maxima Center, Utrecht, The [...]