Session – 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Sunday, 26 October 2025 - Session 3

Paediatric Oncology

10/26/2025 09:00 AM 10/26/2025 11:00 AM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Paediatric Oncology 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	26 October 2025	Time:	09:00 - 11:00 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Muhammad Ali Sheikh & Sadia Anwar	CME Credit Hour:	2

	WILMS TUMOUR

09:00	RADIATION TREATMENT FOR WILMS TUMOR: A MODERN PERSPECTIVE
09:00	Bilal Mazhar Qureshi Assistant Professor Paediatric Radiation Oncology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

09:30	HOW WE CAN ADVANCE SURGICAL CARE FOR WILMS TUMOURS IN LOW MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
09:30	Saleem Islam Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

10:00	RESEARCH ON RELAPSED WILMS TUMOR
10:00	Filippo Spreafico Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

10:30	PANEL DISCUSSION
10:30	Panelist: Saleem Islam /Bilal Mazhar Qureshi /Filippo Spreafico

Paediatric Oncology II

10/26/2025 11:20 AM 10/26/2025 01:30 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Paediatric Oncology II 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	26 October 2025	Time:	11:20 - 13:30 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Sadia Omer & Tehmina Kazmi	CME Credit Hour:	2

	NEW PARADIGMS IN PEDIATRIC ONCOCRITICAL CARE

11:20	PREDICTORS OF PAEDIATRIC MORTALITY IN LMIC ESPECIALLY ONCOLOGIC POPULATION
11:20	Adnan Bhutta Chief of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA

11:50	GVDH, SPECTRUM AND ADVANCES IN TREATMENTS, WHAT PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVIST NEED TO KNOW
11:50	Ikram Ul Haque Chief of Intensive Care Division, Sidra Hospital, Doha, Qatar

12:20	EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF CLINICAL DETERIORATION IN CHILDREN WITH CANCER
12:20	Adolfo Cardenas Aguirre Paediatric Critical Care consultant, St. Jude Research Children Hospital, Memphis, USA

12:50	PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PROJECTS: INTRODUCTION OF EXTUBATION CHECKLIST
12:50

	10 YEARS OF INSTITUTIONAL STUDY ON CRRT PRACTICE


	IMPROVING WASTE SEGREGATION IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT



	Moderator: Muniba Jalil - Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, SKMCH&RC, Lahore, Pakistan

13:05	BURNOUT IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
13:05	Panelists: Nasira Hayat /Adnan Bhutta /Ikram Ul Haque /Adolfo Cardenas Aguirre

Paediatric Oncology III

10/26/2025 02:00 PM 10/26/2025 04:00 PM Asia/Karachi 15 OPAQUE Paediatric Oncology III 24th Shaukat Khanum Cancer Symposium

Date:	26 October 2025	Time:	14:00 - 16:00 (GMT+5)
Moderator:	Safia Khan & Irfana Ishaq Sindhu	CME Credit Hour:	1.5

	INNOVATIONS IN TREATING PAEDIATRIC HAEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES

14:05	PAEDIATRIC MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME IN PAKISTAN
14:05	Tariq Ghafoor Professor of Paediatrics, Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

14:35	PERIPHERAL T CELL LYMPHOMAS - NEW INSIGHTS
14:35	Ahmed Naqvi Assistant Professor, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

15:05	DE-ESCALATION OF CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA
15:05	Ajay Vora Professor of Paediatric Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, UK

15:35	PANEL DISCUSSION
15:35	Panelists: Ahmed Naqvi /Tariq Ghafoor /Ajay Vora