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42nd Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

Speaker Abstracts

CME Session

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The late effects of treatment for childhood cancer

Davis Nikki

As survival from childhood cancer continues to rise, attention to the quality of survivorship becomes more relevant and important. The most frequent causes of death after surviving a malignancy, are disease recurrence, development of second cancer, and then cardiovascular disease. This means that strategies aimed at assessing the risk factors and contributions to cardiovascular disease in this group, with a view to developing effective secondary prevention strategies are requi...

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Trainees update

Besser Rachel , Steele Caroline

The trainee reps (Drs C Steele and R Besser) will provide an update on their activities on behalf of the trainees in the past year including:i) Update of the traineesÂ’ section of the BSPED website.ii) Results of a recent survey of GRID trainees aimed to track training and for future workforce planning.iii) Ongoing activities (such as traineesÂ’ section of the BSPED newsletter) and number of e-mail co...