What’s New?
The November 2017 website update includes the following changes and additions. Thank you for visiting!
- The ECDGA welcomed two new international ECD Care Centers to the growing network.
- Australia
Institutions: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital
Location: 305 Grattan St.
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia, 3000
Contact: Michael Dickinson, MD
Telephone: +61385599500
E-mail: michael.dickinson@petermac.org
- Israel
Institution: Assuta Medical Center
Location: HaBarzel St. 20
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Contact: Prof. Ofer Shpilberg and Roei Mazor, MD
Telephone: +972-3-7644364
E-mail: hematologyrec@assuta.co.il
- Patients can now have genetic testing of their ECD biopsy done for free via the new investigative study, “Make-an-IMPACT: Tumor gene sequencing for ECD patients worldwide at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.” More information can be found on the Studies & Trials under the section ECD GENETIC SEQUENCING.
- ECD treatment information has been updated for BRAF and MEK inhibitors to reflect the most current advances.
- New press releases have been added:
- An oncologist on the Knowledgeable Doctors list updated the following contact information:
- Paul Montgomery, MD
Boise VAMC, Oncology
500 W Fort St
Boise ID 83702
Email: paul.montgomery@va.gov