Thursday 6 Nov 2025
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Coffee break |
| 14:00 | Welcome (Maja Česen) |
| 14:15 – 17:00 | EXPeRT Group – General Assembly (open to all EXPeRT members) Work done (book, papers, ESCP list, …) (D Orbach) |
| Ongoing and new projects (I Brecht) | |
| Young EXPeRT Group advances (M Abele ?) | |
| CPMS (D Schneider) | |
| Partner registry update (G Bisogno) | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Challenging Cases discussion (young pediatric oncologists (< 40 yo) from new or countries not already part of EXPeRT, max 4, 10 min presentations (Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania)) |
| 19:00 | Dinner (Švicarija) |
Friday 7 nov 2025
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Presenting EXPeRT to Eastern European countries participants (Chair: Gianni Bisogno) |
| Expert organization, Partner registry, CPMS (Ines Brecht/ Maja Česen) | |
| Finalized ESCP presentation: | |
| Paraganglioma/pheochromocytoma (M Kuhlen) | |
| Appendical NET (C Virgone) | |
| MNTI (M (Gosia) Krawczyk) | |
| Lung Carcinoma (M Abele) | |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Focus on specific VRT in Children 10.00 – 11.30 (Chairs: Michael Abele, Malgosia Krawczyk) |
| Sex cord-stromal tumor, borderline ovarian tumors (D Schneider) | |
| Poorly differentiated Chordoma and conventional Chordoma (Malgosia Krawczyk) | |
| Myoepithelial carcinoma (Arianna Tagarelli) | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Extremely rare pediatric tumors (Chairs Ewa Bien, Calogero Virgogne) |
| Hypercalcemic ovarian carcinoma: clinics and biology (D Schneider) | |
| CCMRd and Digestive burden of patients with Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency Syndrome, diagnostic pitfalls, and experience of immunotherapy: a report from the C4CMMRD database (Margot Einfalt, Ana Blatnik) | |
| GIST in Children (Tal Ben Ami, Calogero Virgone) | |
| Kaposiform and tuffed Hemangioendothelioma in children: how to distinguish these diseases from AV malformation, RICH, NICH and other mimic diseases? Overall strategy (Ewa Bien, Ricardo Lopes Maraz) | |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Case presentations: 5’/max 4 cases on VRT (Tal Ben Ami) |
| Velimirovič Maja (Slovenia/Bambino Gesu), Maja Česen, Orjana Velikonja (Slovenia) | |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Lunch |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | VRT in USA (Ted Laetsch) |
| 16:15 – 17:30 | USA/EU collaboration (Chairs Ines Brecht/M Kuhlen) |
| General presentation (I Brecht) | |
| Scientific projects (M Kuhlen) | |
| WP1 | |
| WP2 | |
| WP3 | |
| WP4 | |
| WP5 | |
| Different tumor types appropriate for collaboration |
“The cure for pediatric cancer lies not just in the laboratories of science, but in the unwavering commitment to see every child’s potential fulfilled. When we combine breakthrough research with compassionate care, and the determination to never accept the unacceptable, we transform what once seemed impossible into tomorrow’s medical miracle. Every child deserves the chance to grow up, and it is our collective responsibility to make that future possible.”