Received: 13 October 2021 Revised: 24 December 2021 Accepted: 2 January 2022
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.29568
Pediatric
Blood &
Cancer
The American Society of
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
GLOBAL ONCOLOGY: RESEARCH ARTICLE
Global Neuroblastoma Network: An international
multidisciplinary neuroblastoma tumor board for
resource-limited countries
Katherine K. Matthay
1
Jennifer Hylton
2
Neela Penumarthy
3
Mohammed Khattab
4
Shui Yen Soh
5
Hoa Thi Kim Nguyen
6
Ana Patricia Alcasabas
7
Mohammed Fawzy
8
Raya Saab
9
Muhammad Saghir Khan
10
Khalil Ghandour
11
Guillermo Chantada
12
Nehal S. Parikh
13
Lawrence Faulkner
14
Catherine G. Lam
15
Scott C. Howard
16
1
Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital and University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA
2
Department of Network Development, Resonance Health, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
3
Department of Pediatrics, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, USA
4
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Center, Children’s Hospital, University Mohammed Vth, Rabat, Morocco
5
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, KK Women and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
6
Hue Pediatric Center, Hue Central Hospital, Hue City, Vietnam
7
Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines
8
Children’s Cancer Hospital - Egypt (CCHE/57357) and National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
9
Children’s Cancer Institute, Department of Pediatrics, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
10
Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Al Madinah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
11
Pediatric Surgery, King Hussein Hospital, Amman, Jordan
12
Fundacion Perez-Scremini-Hospital Pereira Rossell, Montevideo, Uruguay and Institute for Translational Research (IIMT) CONICET-Austral University, Pilar,
Argentina
13
Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of NJ and Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA
14
Cure2Children Foundation, Florence, Italy
15
Departments of Global Pediatric Medicine and Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
16
Acute and Tertiary Care, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Correspondence
Katherine K. Matthay, Benioff Children’s Hos-
pital and Department of Pediatrics, University
of California San Francisco School of Medicine,
550 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Email: kate.matthay@ucsf.edu
Funding information
UCSF Neuroblastoma Research Fund;
Cure2Children Foundation; Resonance Health;
Fondazione Umberto Veronesi; St. Jude Chil-
dren.s Research Hospital
Abstract
Background: Tumor boards are part of standard care of patients with complex cancers,
but appropriate multidisciplinary expertise and infrastructure are often not available in
low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) for pediatric cancers, such as neuroblastoma.
Our goal was to review results of a Global Neuroblastoma Network (GNN) tumor board
accessible to LMIC.
Methods: De-identified clinical cases presented via internet conference during a
weekly GNN virtual tumor board from 2010 through 2020 were evaluated in a
Abbreviations: ASCT, autologous stem cell transplant; CT, computerized tomography; FDG-PET, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; GNN, Global Neuroblastoma Network; HIC,
high-income countries; INPC, International Neuroblastoma Pathology Classification; INRG, International Neuroblastoma Risk Group staging system; INSS, International Neuroblastoma Staging
System; LDH, lactic dehydrogenase; LMIC, low- and middle-income countries; MIBG, metaiodobenzylguanidine; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging.
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