title: [Adolescent and Young Adults (AYAS) brain tumor national Web conference. On behalf of ANOCEF, GO-AJA and SFCE societies].
abstract: The skills of adult versus pediatric neuro-oncologists are not completely similar though additive. Because the tumors and their protocols are different and the tolerance and expected sequelae are specific. Multidisciplinary meetings including adult and pediatric neuro-oncologists are warranted to share expertise. Since 2008, a weekly national web based conference was held in France. Any patient with the following criteria could be discussed: Adolescent and Young Adults aged between 15 and 25 years, and any adult with a pediatric type pathology, including medulloblastoma, germ cell tumors, embryonic tumors, ependymoma, pilocytic astrocytoma.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Attendance during the year 2015 was as follows: 42 meetings were held; the median number of cases discussed at each meeting was 4 (1 to 8); the mean number of attendants was 7 (2 to 12). One hundred and sixty-eight cases concerning 121 patients were discussed. Mean age was 30 years old (7 to 67). Forty-eight percent were discussed at diagnosis. The patients had mostly medulloblastomas (40%), germ cell tumors (11%), ependymomas (11%), pineal tumors (7%) and embryonal tumors (8%). The rate of inclusion in protocols was increased since the opening of this web conference, especially for the germ cell tumor SIOP protocol that is opened without age restriction, and in RSMA standard risk or MEVITEM relapse adult medulloblastoma protocols.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Multidisciplinary Web conference for AYAs is feasible and increases the inclusion rate in protocols. It should be developed further.
authors.affiliation: Centre Léon-Bérard, 28, Prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France; Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France; Société française du cancer de l'enfant (SFCE), 35203 Rennes cedex 2, France; Groupe onco-hématologie adolescents jeunes adultes (GO-AJA), 75013 Paris, France. Electronic address: Didier.frappaz@lyon.unicancer.fr.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frappaz
authors.affiliation: Centre Léon-Bérard, 28, Prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France; Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Pierre
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Sunyach
authors.affiliation: Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France; CHRU, 2, avenue Oscar-Lambret, 59000 Lille, France.
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Le Rhun
authors.affiliation: Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France; CHU, 1, rue Joseph-Cugnot, 54035 Nancy, France.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blonski
authors.affiliation: Groupe onco-hématologie adolescents jeunes adultes (GO-AJA), 75013 Paris, France; Institut Curie, 26, rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Laurence
authors.affiliation: Centre Léon-Bérard, 28, Prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France; Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonneville Levard
authors.affiliation: Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France; CHU, bâtiment Tripode, place Amélie-Raba-Léon, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: Hugues
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Loiseau
authors.affiliation: Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France; CHU de Lyon, 59, boulevard Pinel, 69500 Bron, France.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Meyronnet
authors.affiliation: Centre Léon-Bérard, 28, Prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Callies
authors.affiliation: Association des neuro-oncologues d'expression française (ANOCEF), 54035 Nancy cedex, France; Pitié Salpêtrière, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laigle-Donadey
authors.affiliation: Centre Léon-Bérard, 28, Prom. Léa-et-Napoléon-Bullukian, 69008 Lyon, France; Société française du cancer de l'enfant (SFCE), 35203 Rennes cedex 2, France.
authors.forename: Cecile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Faure Conter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000628:therapy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000628:therapy; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008495:Medical Oncology; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000628:therapy; D009462:Neurology; D010871:Pinealoma / Q000628:therapy; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Adolescents; Brain tumors; Germ cell tumors; Jeunes adultes; Medulloblastoma; Multidisciplinarity; Multidisciplinarité; Médulloblastome; Tumeurs cérébrales; Tumeurs germinales malignes; Young adults