Committee chairs

Arja Harila (ELTEC)
Arja Harila
Thorsten Langer (ELTEC)
Thorsten Langer

Activities and Projects

Open

Projects in close collaboration with other committees in the field of early toxicity:

  • Supportive care in leukaemia treatment
  • Toxicity issues in NHL
  • Middle and late term toxicity in ALL
  • Prevention, Diagnosis & Management of Thrombosis & Bleeding in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: European Survey of Current Practice

Projects in the field of late toxicity inside I-BFM:

  • Survey on your knowledge about your disease and later care

Projects in the field of late toxicity in collaboration with PanCare:

  • PanCareLife
  • Survivorship Passport

Completed

  • PanCareSurFup (1.2.2011-31.1.2017)

Selected Publications

1
Late Cardiac Events after Childhood Cancer: Methodological Aspects of the Pan-European Study PanCareSurFup
2016 Sep 19;11(9):e0162778. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162778. eCollection 2016.
PLoS One
Feijen EA, Font-Gonzalez A, van Dalen EC, van der Pal HJ, Reulen RC, Winter DL, Kuehni CE, Haupt R, Alessi D, Byrne J, Bardi E, Jakab Z, Grabow D, Garwicz S, Jankovic M, Levitt GA, Skinner R, Zadravec Zaletel L, Hjorth L, Tissing WJ, de Vathaire F, Hawkins MM, Kremer LC; PanCareSurFup consortium
2
Galactomannan, β-D-Glucan, and Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Assays for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Disease in Pediatric Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
2016 Nov 15;63(10):1340-1348. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw592. Epub 2016 Aug 27.
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Lehrnbecher T, Robinson PD, Fisher BT, Castagnola E, Groll AH, Steinbach WJ, Zaoutis TE, Negeri ZF, Beyene J, Phillips B, Sung L. Galactomannan
3
Risk stratification in febrile neutropenic episodes in adolescent/young adult patients with cancer
2016 Sep:64:101-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2016.05.027. Epub 2016 Jul 5.
Eur J Cancer
Robert S Phillips, Kaljit Bhuller, Lillian Sung, Roland A Ammann, Wim J E Tissing, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Lesley A Stewart; PICNICC Collaboration
4
Lack of Effectiveness of Neutropenic Diet and Social Restrictions as Anti-Infective Measures in Children With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: An Analysis of the AML-BFM 2004 Trial
2016 Aug 10;34(23):2776-83. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.66.7881. Epub 2016 Jun 6.
J Clin Oncol
Lars Tramsen, Emilia Salzmann-Manrique, Konrad Bochennek, Thomas Klingebiel, Dirk Reinhardt, Ursula Creutzig, Lillian Sung, Thomas Lehrnbecher
5
Strategies for Empiric Management of Pediatric Fever and Neutropenia in Patients With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials
2016 Jun 10;34(17):2054-60. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2015.65.8591. Epub 2016 Mar 28.
J Clin Oncol
Paula D Robinson, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Robert Phillips, L Lee Dupuis, Lillian Sung
6
Predicting microbiologically defined infection in febrile neutropenic episodes in children: global individual participant data multivariable meta-analysis
2016 Mar 15;114(6):623-30. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2016.28. Epub 2016 Mar 8.
Br J Cancer
Robert S Phillips, Lillian Sung, Roland A Ammann, Richard D Riley, Elio Castagnola, Gabrielle M Haeusler, Robert Klaassen, Wim J E Tissing, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Julia Chisholm, Hana Hakim, Neil Ranasinghe, Marianne Paesmans, Ian M Hann, Lesley A Stewart; PICNICC Collaboration
7
Infectious Complications in Children With Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Down Syndrome: Analysis of the Prospective Multicenter Trial AML-BFM 2004
2016 Jun;63(6):1070-4. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25917. Epub 2016 Jan 27.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
Angela Hassler, Konrad Bochennek, Julia Gilfert, Corinna Perner, Stefan Schöning, Ursula Creutzig, Dirk Reinhardt, Thomas Lehrnbecher
8
Infectious complications in children with acute myeloid leukemia: decreased mortality in multicenter trial AML-BFM 2004
2016 Jan 15;6(1):e382. doi: 10.1038/bcj.2015.110.
Blood Cancer J
K Bochennek, A Hassler, C Perner, J Gilfert, S Schöning, T Klingebiel, D Reinhardt, U Creutzig, T Lehrnbecher
9
Transition guidelines: An important step in the future care for childhood cancer survivors. A comprehensive definition as groundwork
2016 Feb;54:64-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2015.10.007. Epub 2015 Dec 28
Eur J Cancer
Mulder RL, van der Pal HJ, Levitt GA, Skinner R, Kremer LC, Brown MC, Bárdi E, Windsor R, Michel G, Frey E
10
Classification of treatment-related mortality in children with cancer: a systematic assessment
2015 Dec;16(16):e604-10. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00197-7.
Lancet Oncol
Sarah Alexander, Jason D Pole, Paul Gibson, Michelle Lee, Tanya Hesser, Susan N Chi, Christopher C Dvorak, Brian Fisher, Henrik Hasle, Jukka Kanerva, Anja Möricke, Bob Phillips, Elizabeth Raetz, Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, Sujith Samarasinghe, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Wim Tissing, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Lillian Sung; International Pediatric Oncology Mortality Classification Group
11
Antifungal prophylaxis in pediatric patients undergoing therapy for cancer: drugs and dosing
2015 Dec;28(6):523-31. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000210.
Curr Opin Infect Dis
Thomas Lehrnbecher
12
Survivorship after childhood cancer: PanCare: a European Network to promote optimal long-term care
2015 Jul;51(10):1203-11. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2015.04.002. Epub 2015 May 6.
Eur J Cancer
Hjorth L, Haupt R, Skinner R, Grabow D, Byrne J, Karner S, Levitt G, Michel G, van der Pal H, Bárdi E, Beck JD, de Vathaire F, Essig S, Frey E, Garwicz S, Hawkins M, Jakab Z, Jankovic M, Kazanowska B, Kepak T, Kremer L, Lackner H, Sugden E, Terenziani M, Zaletel LZ, Kaatsch P; PanCare Network
13
Bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy in patients with cancer and hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
2015 Feb 10;33(5):501-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.58.0480. Epub 2015 Jan 5.
J Clin Oncol
DeepakBabu Chellapandian, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Bob Phillips, Brian T Fisher, Theoklis E Zaoutis, William J Steinbach, Joseph Beyene, Lillian Sung
14
The views of European clinicians on guidelines for long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors
2015 Feb;62(2):322-328. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25310. Epub 2014 Nov 8.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
Brown MC, Levitt GA, Frey E, Bárdi E, Haupt R, Hjorth L, Kremer L, Kuehni CE, Lettner C, Mulder RL, Michel G, Skinner R; on behalf of the PanCareSurFup Consortium
15
Practices of pediatric oncology and hematology providers regarding fertility issues: a European survey
2014 Jul 25;61(11):2054-8. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25163. Epub 2014 Jul 25.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
Terenziani M, Spinelli M, Jankovic M, Bardi E, Hjorth L, Haupt R, Michel G, Byrne J; on behalf of the PanCare Network
16
A new method to facilitate valid and consistent grading cardiac events in childhood cancer survivors using medical records
2014 Jul 9;9(7):e100432. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100432. eCollection 2014.
PLoS One
Feijen EL, van der Pal HJ, van Dalen EC, Mulder RL, Bardi E, Kuehni C, Tissing WJ, Kremer LC
17
Effectiveness of supportive care measures to reduce infections in pediatric AML: a report from the Children's Oncology Group
2013 May 2;121(18):3573-7. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-01-476614. Epub 2013 Mar 7.
Blood
Lillian Sung, Richard Aplenc, Todd A Alonzo, Robert B Gerbing, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Alan S Gamis
18
Guideline for the management of fever and neutropenia in children with cancer and/or undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation
2012 Dec 10;30(35):4427-38. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.42.7161. Epub 2012 Sep 17.
J Clin Oncol
Thomas Lehrnbecher, Robert Phillips, Sarah Alexander, Frank Alvaro, Fabianne Carlesse, Brian Fisher, Hana Hakim, Maria Santolaya, Elio Castagnola, Bonnie L Davis, L Lee Dupuis, Faith Gibson, Andreas H Groll, Aditya Gaur, Ajay Gupta, Rejin Kebudi, Sérgio Petrilli, William J Steinbach, Milena Villarroel, Theoklis Zaoutis, Lillian Sung; International Pediatric Fever and Neutropenia Guideline Panel