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Monday, August 15, 2011

Pediatric Proton Featured in Electronic Sarcoma Newsletter in August!

The Pediatric Proton Foundation is featured in this month's Electronic Sarcoma Update Newsletter (ESUN).  Since my son is a Ewing's Sarcoma survivor, the work of the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Foundation has been of extreme interest to me since Day 1 of diagnosis.  Click here to read the article:  http://sarcomahelp.org/newsletter/community.html

ESUN is an online, open access, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly newsletter. In addition to feature articles that focus on specific sarcomas and current research and clinical issues dealing with these cancers, it has regular columns that abstract newly announced clinical trials and recent research findings). It also contains a column telling stories of courage and hope, a column that deals with a potpourri of topics of general interest, and updates on sarcoma advocacy and related groups. Our readership consists of physicians (oncologists and non-oncologists), nurses, patients, caregivers and survivors. ESUN contents are accessed over 30,000 times each month, giving wide visibility to the published articles. Additionally, a number of articles in ESUN have been translated by sarcoma physicians and researchers and appear in Chinese, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish to benefit the sarcoma communities within the respective countries.


Thank you Bruce Shriver for your dedicated and excellent work in the Sarcoma community.  Thank you for this opportunity to discuss the Pediatric Proton Foundation!

Monday, August 8, 2011

Breaking News...State of Pediatric Proton Therapy 2010 Soon to be Released!

BREAKING NEWS - August 8th


The survey of the State of Pediatric Proton Therapy 2010 is about to be completed. We had 100% participation!

The survey is currently undergoing peer review and will be presented by Dr. Daniel Indelicato of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute (volunteer for the Pediatric Proton Foundation) during the Fall Meeting of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) in Atlanta September 13 - 16, 2011.

The National Association for Proton Therapy (NAPT) and the Pediatric Proton Foundation will issue a joint press release immediately after Dr. Indelicato presents the survey results at COG. Highlights from the survey will include the total number of pediatric cases, the various types of diseases treated, and the age groups treated.

Thank you for your continued support for this initial and important proton community effort.  We look forward to your feedback.