Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults / Pediatric Oncology (PDF)

Canada where he is Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Medicine. Dr. Barr led the Division of Hematology and Oncology at McMaster Children's Hospital for 30 years. He has authored some 400 publications, co-edited the first edition of this book with Dr. Archie Bleyer and is co-chair of the federally funded National Task Force on Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology in Canada.Lynn Ries received her M.S. in Biomathematics from the University of Washington (Seattle). She has over 40 years of experience in cancer data collection and analyses of cancer incidence and survival data. She has published widely during her many years at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and currently as a contractor to NCI's Surveillance Research Program (SRP). She co-authored many of the Annual Reports to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, since the first report was released in 1998. For many years, she was the chief editor of NCI's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Cancer Statistics Review, an annual publication of cancer incidence, survival and mortality with a special chapter devoted to cancers of adolescents and young adults. She served on the NCI Program Review Group for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers which published the report, Closing the Gap: Research and Care Imperatives for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer. She has been an editor and chapter author on several NCI monographs including Cancer Epidemiology in Older Adolescents and Young Adults 15 to 29 Years of Age, Including SEER Incidence and Survival: 1975-2000. She served on several North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) committees which encourage standardization in cancer data collection for the United States and Canada. She served as Regional Representative for North America and Treasurer on the board of the International Association of Cancer Registries.

Jeremy Whelan is Consultant Medical Oncologist at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Cancer Medicine at University College London. He trained in medicine in London and Nottingham before being appointed as a Consultant Oncologist in 1996 and since then has developed services for sarcomas and for young people with cancer as well as leading extensive programmes of clinical research in these areas. He was a founder member and first chair of Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer, a national group for professionals (TYAC) and chaired the National Cancer Research Institute Teenage and Young Adult Clinical Studies Group for 9 years. He is a chief investigator of the international randomised study for osteosarcoma, EURAMOS 1, which completed accrual of over 2000 patients in Europe and the United States (www.euramos.org) and of BRIGHTLIGHT, a national research study addressing the value of specialist services for young people with cancer (www.brightlightstudy.com). He leads the EURO EWING Consortium (www.euroewing.eu) to improve survival from Ewing sarcoma through clinical research. He has also taken an active role in national cancer policy developments in his areas of expertise.

Andrea Ferrari was born in Milan, Italy on 1968. He concluded the medical graduate in 1993 and the board on oncology in 1997. He has been working since 1994 at the Pediatric Oncology Unit of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan, where he is the person responsible of the Outpatient Service. He tackled research projects dedicated to soft tissue sarcomas and pediatric rare tumors: he is founding member of the Board of the European Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG) and the Principal Coordinator of the EpSSG Scientific Committee on Non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas. He is co-founder of the Italian Pediatric Rare Tumors TREP project and of the European Cooperative Study Group for Pediatric Rare Tumors ExPERT . In the last years, he devoted most of his activity to the special needs of adolescents with cancer. He founded the "Youth Project" in his center and the Italian Society of Adolescents with Onco-hematological diseases (SIAMO). He is author or co-author of more than 280 papers published on international scientific journals.