Description:

A collaborative session led by a Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist about the common functional challenges experienced by children with cancer. Using interactive, participation based activities you can discover strategies for helping your patients move and when to involve rehabilitation services.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role of rehabilitation (OT and PT) across the pediatric oncology continuum.
2. Identify common functional challenges experienced by children and youth with cancer.
3. Develop creative, evidence-informed strategies that promote engagement, independence, and return to valued activities.
4. Recognize the benefits of early access to interdisciplinary collaboration and rehab involvement.

Learning Objectives:

1. To appreciate the opportunities and challenges of liquid biopsy for diagnosis of pediatric cancer
2. To review how liquid biopsy can be used to monitor response to therapy
3. To appreciate how liquid biopsy could be used to predict those at increased risk for relapse

Description:

This interactive workshop invites healthcare professionals to step beyond the Symptom Screening in Pediatric (SSPedi) score and experience the impact of taste changes through hands-on sensory activities. Through review of case scenarios and group discussions, the participants will understand how bothersome nutrition symptoms can intersect with appetite, eating enjoyment, quality of life, and family feeding dynamics. Attendees will leave with practical family-centred strategies to support good nutrition status during childhood cancer treatment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore how bothersome nutrition symptoms can impact eating enjoyment and psychosocial factors that alter nutrition intake.
2. Engage in sensory activities that help demonstrate common taste, flavor and smell changes.
3. Apply an interdisciplinary and family-centred approach to provide practical strategies to support good nutrition during pediatric cancer treatment.

Description:

This panel discussion will consider the merits of of the mainstream bioethics toolkit and the role of emerging concepts for managing real cases. This panel will comprised of Michelle Mullen (Paediatric Bioethicist) and Jane Cassano (Social Worker) to introduce issues and approaches. A robust audience engaged discussion of an ethics case and Q&A will be moderated by Serina Patel (Paediatric Haematologist/Oncologist).

Learning Objectives:

1. Appreciate the usefulness and limitations of bioethics tools commonly invoked 
2. Consider emerging tools of narrative, trauma informed care and intersectionality in approaching cases
3. Engage in productive ethics analyses using these tools

Description:

A collaborative session led by a Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist about the common functional challenges experienced by children with cancer. Using interactive, participation based activities you can discover strategies for helping your patients move and when to involve rehabilitation services.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role of rehabilitation (OT and PT) across the pediatric oncology continuum.
2. Identify common functional challenges experienced by children and youth with cancer.
3. Develop creative, evidence-informed strategies that promote engagement, independence, and return to valued activities.
4. Recognize the benefits of early access to interdisciplinary collaboration and rehab involvement.

Description:

This interactive workshop invites healthcare professionals to step beyond the Symptom Screening in Pediatric (SSPedi) score and experience the impact of taste changes through hands-on sensory activities. Through review of case scenarios and group discussions, the participants will understand how bothersome nutrition symptoms can intersect with appetite, eating enjoyment, quality of life, and family feeding dynamics. Attendees will leave with practical family-centred strategies to support good nutrition status during childhood cancer treatment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore how bothersome nutrition symptoms can impact eating enjoyment and psychosocial factors that alter nutrition intake.
2. Engage in sensory activities that help demonstrate common taste, flavor and smell changes.
3. Apply an interdisciplinary and family-centred approach to provide practical strategies to support good nutrition during pediatric cancer treatment.

Description:

Symptom screening by children and adolescents with cancer and undergoing cellular therapy increases quality of life.  This presentation will discuss:

• How symptom screening may be implemented in Ontario
• Some of the resources that will be available to support implementation including POGO-supported care pathways
• The future of symptom screening implementation in Ontario

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this presentation, attendees will understand:

1. The provincial plan for symptom screening implementation
2. The role of healthcare professionals in responding to symptom screening results and the resources available to support evidence-based responses
3. How symptom screening will contribute to optimization of supportive care in the future

Description:

Sharing Anishinaabe teachings: changing perspectives for Indigenous patient care.

Learning Objectives:

1. Providing Indigenous perspective to the patient team.

Description:

This session will provide an overview of what fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is and why it matters, for both survivors and parents. We will cover a brief review of evidence-based interventions using a stepped care approach, with a focus on the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy (FORT) intervention for those with high FCR. We will then explore the adaptation of FORT for both survivors of childhood cancer and their parents, including rationale, co-design process, adaptations required, and preliminary findings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe evidence-informed strategies to support individuals with low to moderate FCR
2. Recognize when referral to a structured intervention such as FORT may be appropriate
3. Summarize the preliminary findings of the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy (FORT) interventions for survivors of childhood cancer their parents

Learning Objectives:

1. Bring awareness of the drug costs incurred to hospitals and the broader health care system in the treatment of pediatric malignancies
2. Give insight into the out of pocket drug costs incurred by families during a child's treatment
3. Compare different funding schema available to adults and children being treated for malignancy

Description:

Please join us for the sex and gender education you never had for pediatric oncology patients and parents. In this talk, we will briefly review terminology and the landscape of 2SLGBTQIA discrimination, followed by a deeper dive into how this can and does impact pediatric cancer care and how all of us can become allies striving to provide culturally safe and competent care.

Learning Objectives:

1. To raise awareness of the health disparities that exist for 2SLGBTQIA patients/parents, and examine their potential impacts on cancer care
2. To create and provide a safe space for learning and reflection for all attendees, no matter their background and experience
3. To inspire and educate pediatric oncology professionals on how to provide appropriate care, and become an advocate and ally for 2SLGBTQIA+ patients/parents