A look back: SIOP Europe Host Genome Working Group Meeting in Bern, Switzerland in January 2025 bringing together more than 100 experts from 24 countries
The SIOPE Host Genome Working Group Meeting 2025 was held in Bern, Switzerland, on 30–31 January, following the Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency Meeting of the C4CMMRD Group (29–30 January). A total of 112 participants from 24 countries across Europe and North America joined both locally and online. Plenary sessions explored key topics, including vaccines for cancer prevention in predisposed individuals, circulating tumour DNA for early detection, and the role of national and international multidisciplinary advisory boards. Four workshops focused on advances in Cancer Predisposition Syndromes, while thirteen ongoing projects were presented, challenging cases reviewed, and the Danish Cancer Predispositions Clinic was featured.
A look into the future: SIOP Europe Meeting in Budapest, Hungary in May 2025 with exciting joint sessions on Cancer Predisposition Syndromes
The SIOPE Host Genome Working Group is happy to announce joint sessions with partner groups during the SIOPE Meeting in May 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. In collaboration with the European Cooperative Study Group for Pediatric Rare Tumors (EXPeRT) we have organized a session on “Paraganglioma and Pheochromocytoma in children and adolescents: Updates and challenges” on Thursday, 15 May 2025 from 14:00 to 15:30, CEST. We will be covering clinical specificities and workup, surveillance strategies, treatment options including surgery and approaches for metastatic disease. In collaboration with the Radiation Oncology Working Group, we will host a session on CNS tumors in Li-Fraumeni syndrome on Friday, 16 May 2025, from 10:30 to 12:30, CEST.
We will address the challenges of irradiating patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, review specific cases, and discuss radiotherapy and other options for CNS tumours. The programme will also feature a keynote lecture providing an overview of CNS tumours in Li-Fraumeni syndrome.