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Paediatric tumours
Hosted by Pamela Kearns
University of Birmingham, UK
o Pamela Kearns
University of Birmingham, UK
Introduction
o Nick Goulden
Royal Hospital for Children and University of Bristol, UK
Minimal residual disease in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
o Peter Ambros
Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
Genetics of neuroblastoma
o Sue Burchill
Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
The clinical impact of fusion genes in paediatric sarcomas
Proffered paper presentations:
o Matthew Murray
Medical Research Council Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge, UK
Malignant germ cell tumours display conserved microRNA
(miRNA) profiles resulting in global changes in expression of
mRNA targets
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Catriona Parker
University of Manchester, UK
Significant improvement in the outcome of children with ALL:
result of the international randomised ALLR3 study
o Seema Alexander
University of Lincoln, USA CR-UK Children’s Cancer Group, Paterson Institute
of Cancer Research, Manchester, UK
Rac2 and asparaginyl endopeptidase regulates invasion in
pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
PET Imaging
Hosted by Paul Marsden
Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, London, UK
o Paul Marsden
Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, London, UK
Introduction
o Sibylle Ziegler
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Basic principles and instrumentation for positron emission
tomography
o Stefano Fanti
University of Bologna, Policlinico, Italy
Positron emission tomography - but not fludeoxyglucose
o Roland Haubner
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Non-invasive tracer techniques to characterise angiogenesis
Proffered paper presentations:
o Martin Christlieb
CRUK-MRC Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of
Oxford, UK
Developments in imaging hypoxia: new tracers and data
modelling
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