Webinar 6 overview

  • Updates on Langerhans cell histiocytosis and other histiocytosis in children: invited review—challenges and novelties in paediatric tumours - Dr Laura Gallluzo Mutti
  • Pediatric lymphomas: overview and diagnostic challenges - Leticia Quintanilla

This event will take place at 1:00pm and last approximately 1 hour.

Webinar series overview

Paediatric tumours and tumour-like malformations present unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to their diverse biological behaviours and the nuances of their classification. Advances in molecular genetics and diagnostic techniques continue to reshape our understanding of these diseases, refining their characterization and expanding opportunities for targeted therapies.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have officially released, for the first time in the seven decades since the “Blue Books” started, a volume (two volumes, also for the first time) with the WHO Classification of Paediatric Tumours. This landmark publication represents the culmination of years of collaborative research and expertise, offering a comprehensive framework for the classification of tumours in children and adolescents prepared by specialists in paediatric pathology in collaboration with a vast array of other pathology experts. The classification reflects the distinct pathological, molecular and clinical characteristics of paediatric tumours, emphasizing their developmental features which explain differences from their adult counterparts, and underscoring the need for age-specific diagnostic and treatment strategies (Virchows Archiv (2025) 486:1–2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-025-04033-5).

In January 2025, Virchows Archives, the official journal of the European Society of Pathology published the Annual Review Issue focusing on Challenges and Novelties in Paediatric Pathology (Virchows Archiv (2025) 486).

Professor Miguel Reyes Múgica and Dr Isabel Colmenero, Editors of this special issue, succeeded in bringing together a comprehensive collection of paediatric tumours and cancer predisposition syndromes, each of which was authored by experts in the specific tumour field.

The Royal College of Pathologists is delighted to announce a webinar series organised jointly with the European Society of Pathology, Virchows Archives and the International Paediatric Pathology Association (IPPA).  Each of the topics published by  Virchows  addressing paediatric tumours will be presented at the webinars series.

We are certain this joint webinar series will attract many paediatric and general pathologists from around the world.

CPD

This meeting is worth 1 CPD point (self credited).

Speaker/chair biographies - Challenges and novelties in Paediatric Pathology (webinar 6)

  • Dr Maria Laura Galluzzo Mutti

    Speaker

    Dr Maria Laura Galluzzo Mutti serves as full time Pediatric Pathologist at Garrahan Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her former training in Pediatrics gives her some extra tools in management of diagnosis. Garrahan Hospital is the largest pediatric hospital in the country, with more than 600 beds, where high complex diseases are referred, and more than 40% of children with cancer are treated. Besides that the hospital gives support in diagnosis and treatment to many other cases in the country and the region. Dr Galluzzo is involved in different areas of children diseases, like hemolymphoid pathology, histiocytosis, renal tumors, DSD, corticoadrenal neoplasias and general surgical and medical pediatric pathology. Dr Galluzzo is involved with UMBRELLA, the SIOP protocol for renal tumours, as national pathologist reviewer. She is actively dedicated to teach as coordinator of the Fellowship in Pediatric Pathologist, and coordinator of Pediatric Pathology Unit at the university programme of Pathology at University of Buenos Aires. She is also involved in SLAPPE as member of the scientific committee, ending after next biannual meeting in Santiago (Chile) in November 2025.

  • Leticia Quintanilla

    Speaker

  • Professor Marta Cohen OBE

    Vice President for Learning

 

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