Are you interested in applying for a fellowship role at Starship Blood and Cancer Centre (SBCC) in 2021? If so get in touch with Service Clinical Director Mark Winstanley MWinstanley@adhb.govt.nz. https://tas-adhbrac.taleo.net/careersection/1/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=AUC08344...
NCCN has produced some information for families of children who are at higher risk of catching measles. This is particularly relevant for children undergoing chemotherapy. For general measles information for Starship families refer to the Starship Clinical Guidelines. ...
Version 5.0 of the COG LTFU Guidelines has just been released. Since 2003, the COG LTFU Guidelines have been integral to directing the long-term follow-up care provided by COG institutions for survivors of childhood, adolescent, and young adults cancers. There are significant changes to Version 5.0...
Dr Rob Corbett has been a key member of the child cancer community since he arrived in Christchurch in the mid 1990s. He was sole paediatric oncologist there until joined by Dr Michael Sullivan when the Christchurch and Dunedin services amalgamated around 2000. Rob was very active...
New “childhood cancer and education” pages (for teachers and family /whānau) have gone live on the KidsHealth website: This has been a joint initiative led by National Child Cancer Network (NCCN) and Child Cancer Foundation, working closely with the team at KidsHealth. This is foundation piece...
An update to New Zealand's child cancer incidence and survival data was recently presented at the annual ANZCHOG meeting in Sydney Australia, 15-17 June. The estimated five-year survival rate for childhood cancers in New Zealand (84%) is comparable with data recently published for other OECD...
Updated guidance has just been published for children and young people presenting acutely to a paediatric service outside of Christchurch and Auckland with a non-malignant haematological problem. Where possible they will be dealt with by the paediatric service using available Starship Clinical Guidelines. If additional assistance...
For the past two years, CHOC and Starship have been collecting data relating to the reimmunisation policy which provides for individualised revaccination advice based on off treatment serology testing. Analysis of the data shows that this strategy risks delayed or missed immunisations because of the...
The New Zealand Children’s Cancer Registry (NZCCR) has published an update to its first ever incidence report (2000-2009) which includes new childhood cancer registrations for the five year period between 2010 and 2014. There were 762 new childhood cancer registrations in the five years between 2010...
Families who find night-time dosing of mercaptopurine on an empty stomach difficult can now choose the time of day which is most suitable for ensuring mercaptopurine is taken regularly. If taken with food it should always be taken with food and if on an empty...