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Förster A, Davenport C, Duployez N, Erlacher M, Ferster A, Fitzgibbon J, Göhring G, Hasle H, Jongmans MC, Kolenova A, Kronnie G, Lammens T, Mecucci C, Mlynarski W, Niemeyer CM, Sole F, Szczepanski T, Waanders E, Biondi A, Wlodarski M, Schlegelberger B, Ripperger T. European standard clinical practice - Key issues for the medical care of individuals with familial leukemia. Eur J Med Genet 2023; 66:104727. [PMID: 36775010 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2023.104727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
Abstract
Although hematologic malignancies (HM) are no longer considered exclusively sporadic, additional awareness of familial cases has yet to be created. Individuals carrying a (likely) pathogenic germline variant (e.g., in ETV6, GATA2, SAMD9, SAMD9L, or RUNX1) are at an increased risk for developing HM. Given the clinical and psychological impact associated with the diagnosis of a genetic predisposition to HM, it is of utmost importance to provide high-quality, standardized patient care. To address these issues and harmonize care across Europe, the Familial Leukemia Subnetwork within the ERN PaedCan has been assigned to draft an European Standard Clinical Practice (ESCP) document reflecting current best practices for pediatric patients and (healthy) relatives with (suspected) familial leukemia. The group was supported by members of the German network for rare diseases MyPred, of the Host Genome Working Group of SIOPE, and of the COST action LEGEND. The ESCP on familial leukemia is proposed by an interdisciplinary team of experts including hematologists, oncologists, and human geneticists. It is intended to provide general recommendations in areas where disease-specific recommendations do not yet exist. Here, we describe key issues for the medical care of familial leukemia that shall pave the way for a future consensus guideline: (i) identification of individuals with or suggestive of familial leukemia, (ii) genetic analysis and variant interpretation, (iii) genetic counseling and patient education, and (iv) surveillance and (psychological) support. To address the question on how to proceed with individuals suggestive of or at risk of familial leukemia, we developed an algorithm covering four different, partially linked clinical scenarios, and additionally a decision tree to guide clinicians in their considerations regarding familial leukemia in minors with HM. Our recommendations cover, not only patients but also relatives that both should have access to adequate medical care. We illustrate the importance of natural history studies and the need for respective registries for future evidence-based recommendations that shall be updated as new evidence-based standards are established.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alisa Förster
- Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Hematology, CHU Lille, INSERM, University Lille, Lille, France
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium
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- Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Comenius University Medical School and University Children's Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium; Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Institute of Hematology and Center for Hemato-Oncology Research, University and Hospital of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oncology and Hematology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (IJC), Campus ICO-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Polish Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group, Zabrze, Poland; Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Clinica Pediatrica and Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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Goudie C, Witkowski L, Cullinan N, Reichman L, Schiller I, Tachdjian M, Armstrong L, Blood KA, Brossard J, Brunga L, Cacciotti C, Caswell K, Cellot S, Clark ME, Clinton C, Coltin H, Felton K, Fernandez CV, Fleming AJ, Fuentes-Bolanos N, Gibson P, Grant R, Hammad R, Harrison LW, Irwin MS, Johnston DL, Kane S, Lafay-Cousin L, Lara-Corrales I, Larouche V, Mathews N, Meyn MS, Michaeli O, Perrier R, Pike M, Punnett A, Ramaswamy V, Say J, Somers G, Tabori U, Thibodeau ML, Toupin AK, Tucker KM, van Engelen K, Vairy S, Waespe N, Warby M, Wasserman JD, Whitlock JA, Sinnett D, Jabado N, Nathan PC, Shlien A, Kamihara J, Deyell RJ, Ziegler DS, Nichols KE, Dendukuri N, Malkin D, Villani A, Foulkes WD. Performance of the McGill Interactive Pediatric OncoGenetic Guidelines for Identifying Cancer Predisposition Syndromes. JAMA Oncol 2021; 7:1806-1814. [PMID: 34617981 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.4536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Importance Prompt recognition of a child with a cancer predisposition syndrome (CPS) has implications for cancer management, surveillance, genetic counseling, and cascade testing of relatives. Diagnosis of CPS requires practitioner expertise, access to genetic testing, and test result interpretation. This diagnostic process is not accessible in all institutions worldwide, leading to missed CPS diagnoses. Advances in electronic health technology can facilitate CPS risk assessment. Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a CPS prediction tool (McGill Interactive Pediatric OncoGenetic Guidelines [MIPOGG]) in identifying children with cancer who have a low or high likelihood of having a CPS. Design, Setting, and Participants In this international, multicenter diagnostic accuracy study, 1071 pediatric (<19 years of age) oncology patients who had a confirmed CPS (12 oncology referral centers) or who underwent germline DNA sequencing through precision medicine programs (6 centers) from January 1, 2000, to July 31, 2020, were studied. Exposures Exposures were MIPOGG application in patients with cancer and a confirmed CPS (diagnosed through routine clinical care; n = 413) in phase 1 and MIPOGG application in patients with cancer who underwent germline DNA sequencing (n = 658) in phase 2. Study phases did not overlap. Data analysts were blinded to genetic test results. Main Outcomes and Measures The performance of MIPOGG in CPS recognition was compared with that of routine clinical care, including identifying a CPS earlier than practitioners. The tool's test characteristics were calculated using next-generation germline DNA sequencing as the comparator. Results In phase 1, a total of 413 patients with cancer (median age, 3.0 years; range, 0-18 years) and a confirmed CPS were identified. MIPOGG correctly recognized 410 of 412 patients (99.5%) as requiring referral for CPS evaluation at the time of primary cancer diagnosis. Nine patients diagnosed with a CPS by a practitioner after their second malignant tumor were detected by MIPOGG using information available at the time of the first cancer. In phase 2, of 658 children with cancer (median age, 6.6 years; range, 0-18.8 years) who underwent comprehensive germline DNA sequencing, 636 had sufficient information for MIPOGG application. When compared with germline DNA sequencing for CPS detection, the MIPOGG test characteristics for pediatric-onset CPSs were as follows: sensitivity, 90.7%; specificity, 60.5%; positive predictive value, 17.6%; and negative predictive value, 98.6%. Tumor DNA sequencing data confirmed the MIPOGG recommendation for CPS evaluation in 20 of 22 patients with established cancer-CPS associations. Conclusions and Relevance In this diagnostic study, MIPOGG exhibited a favorable accuracy profile for CPS screening and reduced time to CPS recognition. These findings suggest that MIPOGG implementation could standardize and rationalize recommendations for CPS evaluation in children with cancer.
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- Catherine Goudie
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Child Health and Human Development, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- McGill University Health Centre, Department of Human Genetics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Haematology-Oncology, Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland.,Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Child Health and Human Development, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,McGill University Health Centre, Department of Human Genetics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Child Health and Human Development, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Hereditary Cancer Program, BC Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology-Hematology, Children's Hospital-London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Charles-Bruneau Cancer Centre, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Division, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cancer Predisposition Division, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Jim Pattison Children's Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Children's Cancer Institute, Lowy Cancer Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.,Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Haematology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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- Cancer Predisposition Division, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Clinical Genetics, Department of Hereditary Cancer and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
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- Section of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Section of Dermatology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Centre mère-enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison.,Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, and Genetics and Genome Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children's Hospital and Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Programme, Bristol Children's Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Division of Pathology, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.,Northern Ontario School of Medicine Residency Program, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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- Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Oncology and Haematology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Medical Genetics Program of Southwestern Ontario, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.,Charles-Bruneau Cancer Centre, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Division, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- CANSEARCH Research Platform in Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Childhood Cancer Research Group, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Oncology and Haematology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Charles-Bruneau Cancer Centre, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Division, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Child Health and Human Development, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT, University of British Columbia, British Columbia Children's Hospital and Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Children's Cancer Institute, Lowy Cancer Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.,Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cancer Predisposition Division, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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