This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve been honored to have the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons featured in news broadcasts, interviews, articles, and podcasts. Read, watch, and listen here!

News broadcasts

PCDC Director Sam Volchenboum appeared on WTTW News to discuss the importance of data sharing to President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot. Sam’s interview is about 4 minutes into the video.

Sam joined WGN News along with St. Baldrick’s Foundation volunteer event organizer Mary O’Brien to talk about Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and the advances made possible by fundraising efforts like Mary’s. 

Interviews

Sam joined the St. Baldrick’s Foundation Impact Series to discuss the past, present, and future of the PCDC with St. Baldrick’s CEO Kathleen Ruddy.

Sam was a guest on the Solving Kids’ Cancer podcast This Week in Pediatric Oncology, where he discussed progress and challenges around the PCDC and GEARBOx. 

Sam also joined the MIB Agents Osteosarcoma Alliance’s series OsteoBites to discuss the process of building a data commons and lessons learned along the way.

And more

The PCDC and our work with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society were featured in an article about University of Chicago Medicine’s efforts in fighting pediatric cancer: Comer Children’s leads the way for advances in pediatric cancer research.

“We are so excited to be building the next-generation platform for matching children with leukemia to innovative clinical trials,” Volchenboum said. “In the process, we will be creating the largest pediatric leukemia data set in the world.”