POLARIS Project: A New Tool to Better Understand Leukaemia Protocols
SIOP Europe was pleased to present the POLARIS Project at the SIOP Conference in Barcelona, Spain on 30th September 2022.
POLARIS is a project owned by SIOP Europe that aims, in partnership with CCI Europe, at developing printed and digital material to be used by the paediatric haematology-oncology teams (especially doctors and nurses) to explain, in an easy-to-understand visual language, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) roadmaps (from diagnosis to treatment also focusing on some relevant technical aspects to patients, parents and other caregivers).
During the session in Barcelona Carmelo Rizzari, SIOP Europe President, together with Zohar Shalev (Israel), Gil Gilad (Israel), Liesa J. J. Weiler-Wichtl (Austria), Julia Ruiz Pato (Spain) and Teodora Armenkova (Bulgaria) presented the finalised Board for the ongoing AIEOP-BFM ALL and ALLIC Protocols in the initial English version (photo above) and informed the participants that European clinics/hospitals belonging to those networks will soon receive, after appropriate translation in each country language, the paper material to be used to present and to discuss with patients, parents and caregivers all the relevant aspects related to the ALL treatment.
Carmelo Rizzari announced that also the part related to the ALLTOGETHER protocol, the third European ALL network and protocol involved in the project, is ongoing and at a particularly good stage of advancement, with the material to be soon finalised by the experts and made available as well.
Of note, a dedicated POLARIS website including many of the same information provided within the paper boards will be made available most probably by the end of 2022 also in the digital format for all the three protocols.
The POLARIS communication tools project was well received by the audience (over 300 participants) who actively participated in the session with several questions, considerations as well as congratulations. It was also emphasised as similar projects should be encouraged to also cover many other paediatric cancer protocols.
SIOP Europe is proud of working on this project as its community strongly believes that communication in medicine and especially in paediatric oncology is of paramount importance and paves the way to successful diagnosis and treatment not only in ALL but in all paediatric cancers.
The project would not have been possible without the unrestricted support and great collaboration of SERVIER, CCI Europe, Syneos Health and ZoMO.
To learn more, please visit the POLARIS page or contact: office@siope.eu.
