DATE CHANGE - October 6-9, 2022 - IWWM-12 Madrid, Spain
Dear Colleagues:
I am writing to you with great sorrow as we watch the coronavirus epidemic continue to impact lives across the globe. Over 500,000 of our fellow human beings have lost their lives to COVID-19, as both the death toll and number of coronavirus cases continues to grow. Here in the United States, the coronavirus cases have greatly increased with much strain on the medical system for many of our states. In addition, there have been many travel restrictions imposed for travel to/from the United States, and many other countries around the globe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our recognition at this time is that it will not be possible to hold the IWWM-11 this year given the large safety concerns and travel restrictions.
Our initial intent was to move the workshop planned for this October in Madrid to 2022. We have succeeded in making this adjustment and have re-booked the WM workshop for the Westin Madrid for October 6-9, 2022. Our website has been adjusted to reflect this postponement. Our local chairs, Professors Ramon Garcia-Sanz and Jesus San Miguel have been very supportive of this adjustment, and we look forward to working with them on the program and being in Madrid as IWWM-12 in 2022.
We are also giving consideration at this time for a smaller WM workshop (IWWM-11) to be held next summer in Boston. This workshop would permit a smaller group of 40 persons to safely attend to discuss emerging data for WM and help in the development of WM treatment guidelines. While we thought this might have been possible for this Fall, the new realities of the COVID-19 crisis, and the feedback from many of our scientific advisors favored a live, but smaller meeting next year.
We will inform you of the details of the revised workshops once they become available. We thank you for all hard work and efforts on behalf of WM patients.
Steve Treon MD, PhD
Chair
WM Workshop Organizing Committee
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Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Clinic
The Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Clinic at the DFCI is devoted to the care of patients with Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia and related IgM disorders, including IgM MGUS, Myeloma and Neuropathies.
For more information on the WM Clinic at DFCI, please visit the DFCI Center for Hematologic-Oncology/Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Clinic.
Basic Research
Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) is a distinct B-cell malignancythat results from the accumulation, predominantly in the bone marrow, of clonally related B type lymphocytes, lymphoplasmacytic cells and plasma cells which secrete a monoclonal IgM protein.1 This condition is considered to correspond to the lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) as defined by the World Health Organization classification system.2 Most cases of LPL are WM, with less than 5% of cases made up of IgA, IgG and non-secreting LPL ...
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