🚼 Today is #WorldChildrensDay and we are re-sharing stories that focus on children's health and high quality care.
🎗️On #ICCD2025 we heard from BBMRI-ERIC's #biobanks across Europe that are doing vital paediatric cancer research.
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L'Indice de Confiance ICCD plus parlant que les contrôles antidopage #1 www.cyclisme-dopage.com/actualite/20... #cyclisme #dopage #ICCD2025 #TDF2025
🌍 On International Childhood Cancer Day (#ICCD), we spotlight the global disparity in childhood cancer survival rates, highlighting healthcare inequities. Join us at #SCHD25 to address these challenges and reduce disparities! Register now: buff.ly/3Waa3FO #ICCD2025 #ChildhoodCancer #GlobalHealth
The second partner of the German #Biobank Alliance (GBA) in @bbmrieric.bsky.social's major campaign to mark International Childhood #Cancer Day #ICCD2025 on 15 February is the Augsburg Central Biobank (ACBB)!
#Biobanking
International Childhood Cancer Day 2025. Let's unite to raise awareness and support for children battling cancer. Together, we can make a difference! #ICCD2025 #ChildhoodCancerAwareness
👋 We hope you enjoyed our #paediatric #biobank journey across Europe 🇪🇺 to honour #ICCD2025.
At BBMRI-ERIC we are proud to be part of this biobanking community that works so hard to drive #ChildhoodCancerResearch.
#ThroughTheirHands #CUREALL #TreeOfLife
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A BBMRI-ERIC promotional leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day showing an open low temperature freezer that contains colour-coded trays for sample storage. Image credit © SCOPEDIS
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 7:
🎗️🇭🇺 SCOPEDIS: The Hungarian Sample Collection of Pediatric Diseases
🎗️🇭🇺 1971 the Hungarian Pediatric Oncology Network started a national registry for children with haematological & solid tumours 🧵 1/9
📸 Freezer with biobank samples © SCOPEDIS
Today is International Childhood Cancer Day, and we are more dedicated than ever to improving the outcomes of children and adolescents living with #sarcoma through research, resources, and advocacy. #ICCD2025 #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #CureSarcoma #cancer
🎗️🌎 We have one final stop in today's special BBMRI-ERIC #biobank series for #ICCD2025. See you in the next thread that takes us to a biobank in Hungary 🇭🇺
#ThroughTheirHands #CUREALL #TreeOfLife
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A BBMRI-ERIC promotional leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day showing a young man sitting at a laminar flow box pipetting patient samples. Image credit © RWTH cBMB
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 6:
🎗️🇩🇪 The RWTH centralized Biomaterial Bank (RWTH cBMB)
🎗️🇩🇪 The cBMB (University Hospital Aachen) operates in close collaboration with the Department of Pediatric #Hematology and #Oncology. 🧵 1/11
📸 cBMB staff handling patient samples © cBMB
A BBMRI-ERIC promotional leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day showing biobank staff at the Augsburg Central Biobank preparing patient samples for analysis in a sterile environment. Image credit © ACBB
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 5:
🎗️🇩🇪 The Augsburg Central Biobank (ACBB)
🎗️🇩🇪 Biobanks are often tightly linked to clinics to allow best coordination of managing samples, doing research and providing care for patients 🧵 1/9
📸 ACBB staff preparing samples for analysis. © ACBB
🎗️ On International Childhood Cancer Day #ICCD2025, a recent study by our Andrea Sottoriva with @icr.ac.uk & Royal Marsden Hospital, in Cancer Discovery, reveals how a simple blood draw can uncover key genetic clues about paediatric cancer resistance & evolution
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A promotional BBMRI-ERIC leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day showing biobank staff at the IARC/WHO handling samples in the biobank. Image credit © IARC/WHO
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 4:
🎗️ The IARC/WHO paediatric cancer collection
Research thrives on trans-national collaboration. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is the specialised cancer research agency of the WHO 🧵 1/8
📸 Biobank staff at work © IARC/WHO
A promotional BBMRI-ERIC leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day showing biobank staff at the Princess Maxima Center Utrecht pulling a tray of frozen patient samples out of a Liquid Nitrogen tank. Image © Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 3:
🎗️🇳🇱 The Biobank at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology 🧵 1/9
📸 Biobank staff at the Princess Máxima Center pulling frozen samples out of a liquid nitrogen tank. © Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology
A promotional BBMRI-ERIC leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day showing a reaction tube at the LBMC containing a red liquid solution described as "Lysate derived from a patient’s white blood cells" Image: © LBMC
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 2:
🎗️🇱🇻 The Latvian Pediatric Cancer Initiative (LPCI)
The LPCI launched 2019 as collaboration of the Latvian Medical Research & Study Centre (LBMC) and the Children's University Hospital 🧵 1/7
📸 Lysate from white blood cells at the LBMC © LBMC
A promotional BBMRI-ERIC leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day 2025 showing biobank staff with blue gloves handling patient samples in the Swedish Childhood Tumor Biobank. Shown samples are stored in small reaction tubes and placed on dry ice. © BTB
🎗️🌎 #ICCD2025 BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study Nr. 1:
🎗️🇸🇪 The Swedish Childhood Tumor Biobank (BTB)
In 🇸🇪 ca. 350 children are diagnosed with cancer per year. Today >85% survive, but cancer is still one of the major medical causes of childhood death 🧵 1/8
📸 Samples in the BTB on dry ice ©BTB
📢 Join us on our journey and stay tuned, our first post of this BBMRI-ERIC #biobank case study series follows right away! 🎗️
#ICCD2025 #childhoodcancer #cureall #throughyourhands
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A promotional leaflet for the International Childhood Cancer Day in orange and blue. The image shows a large cancer awareness ribbon next to a map of Europe highlighting locations of biobanks of the BBMRI-ERIC network. The map is surrounded by a wordcloud of cancer related terms.
🎗️🌎 Today is International Childhood Cancer Day #ICCD2025
👋 In a series of threads we share a special set of stories highlighting BBMRI-ERIC #biobanks that work towards our shared goal to provide better cancer care for children of all age. 🧵 1/6
#ThroughTheirHands #CUREALL #TreeOfLife
Tomorrow is #InternationalChildhoodCancerDay. We recognize the importance of finding safe, effective ways to support children facing cancer. At C4T, we’re dedicated to researching how #MedicalCannabisForKids can help manage symptoms and improve quality of life.
#ICCD2025
🧒 Ahead of #InternationalChildhoodCancerDay on 15 Feb, a reminder that IMI project ITCC-P4 developed a wealth of tools to advance #paediatric #cancer research & set up a spin-off to make them available to the research community
👉 europa.eu/!kCXfnk
#HorizonEU #ChildhoodCancer #ICCD2025
