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CCI Europe presents at ÖPSAPOH Conference
CCI Europe’s Hannah Gsell and Carina Schneider presented ‘Improving Follow-Up Care: Aktuelle EU-Projekte im Bereich der Nachsorge’ at the ÖPSAPOH Conference (Psychosocial Working Group in the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Regional Group Austria). At the virtual meeting held 18 October 2021, they talked about PanCareSurPass and sister project PanCareFollowUp, highlighting the importance of patient involvement in research at the European level. You can see their full presentation here.
German Nursing Day Congress 2021
Prof. Thorsten Langer (UzL) and Coordinator Dr. Desiree Grabow (UMC-Mainz) were at the German Nursing Day (Deutscher Pflegetag (Berlin)), Germany's leading nursing congress (13 - 14 October 2021). Prof. Langer's presentation 'Verbesserung der Langzeitnachsorge nach Krebs im Kindesalter - Langzeitnachbeobachtung am Deutschen Kinderkrebsregister – Der Survivorship Passport als Tool der Nachsorge' presented PanCareSurPass and how the SurPass can be used in clinical practice.
PanCare Autumn Meeting 2021
Coordinator Dr. Desiree Grabow and Research Manager Riccardo Haupt presented PanCareSurPass at the virtual PanCare Autumn Meeting on 08 October 2021. The day included interesting presentations on survivorship care-related topics, such as the PanCare projects (PanCareSurPass, PanCareFollowUp, PanCareLIFE, PanCareSurFup), childhood cancer survival and COVID-19, Survivorship and Transition and late effects in Neuro-Oncology.
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2021
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, a month where around the world people come together to raise awareness of childhood cancer. SIOP Europe, CCI Europe and PanCare joined forces this year for a joint campaign 'Gold for Hope: Cure more and cure better'. PanCare's contribution to the campaign included features of the PanCareSurPass project.
Feature in HL7 Newsletter
PanCareSurPass has been featured in the latest HL7 International News! You can read the full story from page 20.
Press Release – Project Kickoff
4 million euros awarded to EU project to improve long-term care for survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer by widely implementing the European digital Survivorship Passport Thanks to better cancer treatments, more than 80% of children and adolescents in Europe who are treated for cancer will now survive more than 5 years. There are currently nearly 500,000 survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer across Europe, and this figure is growing every year. However, the cancer treatments are harsh and may cause long-term effects, so survivors require closer health monitoring over their lifetime than their peers who have not had cancer. At the moment only a minority of adult childhood cancer survivors receive appropriate care meaning there is still a long way to go in providing high quality long-term, person-centred follow-up care for survivors. One of the challenges for long-term follow-up care is informing survivors about their personal risk of long-term effects and thereby empower them to manage their own needs for care and support, together with their healthcare professionals. The Survivorship Passport (SurPass, www.survivorshippassport.org) was developed by a number of EU-funded projects ...
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 899999. The material presented and views expressed here are the responsibilities of the author(s) only. The EU Commission takes no responsibility for any use made of the information set out.