zma000469 Abstract Kiss Kiss Csongor C Prof. MD, PhD, DSc

University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Dept. of Paediatrics, 98. Nagyerdei krt., Debrecen H-4032, HungaryUniversity of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Dept. of Paediatrics, Hungary

kisscs@dote.hu author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Paediatric Education, Subspecialities 20070925 20070925 20071001 20071114 engl 1860-3572 24 4 GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung GMS Z Med Ausbild 175 Abstract The Hungarian Childhood Leukemia Working Group, later as the Hungarian Paediatric Oncology Group (HPOG) maintains a systematic registry of the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of children with leukemia and solid tumors since 1971 and 1973, respectively. HPOG has developed a uniform, nation-wide paediatric oncology service in Hungary, a country with ten million inhabitants and limited economic resources characterized by a slowly but significantly growing annual cancer incidence of 132 per one million below the age of 15 years. The newly diagnosed 200-250 patients are being treated in 8 centers, 2 haematopoietic stem cell transplantation units and in one rehabilitation facility according to contemporary protocols, and are followed-up together with the increasing number of children who are cured from cancer. HPOG became an integral part of the international paediatric oncology community. As a result of the coordinated efforts of the members of HPOG, children with cancer in Hungary experience overall and event-free survival rates similar to that of other industrialized countries. 0 0 0 0