This conference will provide a platform for global collaboration, establish networks of multidisciplinary caregivers, identify leaders for specific projects, promulgate tools for communication and collaboration, and develop standards of care for children with HL which will ultimately lead to achieve the mission of improving survival and quality of life for children, adolescents and young adults with Hodgkin lymphoma worldwide. This International Hodgkin lymphoma conference will bring together experts from around the world that will share and commit to collaborate on future international protocols and will recur every 3 years alternating between the US and Europe.

The conference is targeted towards health care providers involved in the acute care and long term follow up of children, adolescents and young adult survivors of HL, as well as basic researchers interested in the biology of HL in this particular population.

We are currently accepting abstracts in the following categories:
Session 1: Diagnosis and Classification of Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 2: Epidemiology, Etiology and Biology
Session 3: Staging and Response Evaluation of Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 4: Frontline Therapy of Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 5: Role of Radiation Therapy in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 6: Adolescent and Young Adults with Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 7: Relapsed and Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 8: Immunotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant for Hodgkin Lymphoma
Session 9: Quality of Life and Late Effects of Therapy

Please follow the link for more information and registration: http://www.stjude.org/iscayahl

For additional questions please don’t hesitate to contact the conference chairs:

Monika Metzger, MD, MSc
Department of Oncology
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, TN 38105 – USA
Tel: +1-901-595-4974
monika.metzger@stjude.org

PD Dr. Christine Mauz-Koerholz
Study Coordinator and Study Secretary of the Euro-Net-PHL Group
Universitätskinderklinik der MLU-Halle
06120 Halle (Salle) – Germany
Tel: +49-345-5572746
christine.mauz-koerholz@medizin.uni-halle.de