價Check for updatesReceived:8 July 2022 Revised:1 March 2023Accepted:20 March 2023D0k101002pbc30352PediatricBlood1DasphoHOW I APPROACHCancerRcamacaaWILEYHow we approach conservative treatment of retinoblastoma inSouth America in the era of local ocular treatments:Aconsensus of the Grupo America Latina de OncologiaPediatrica(GALOP)Juan Pablo Lopez Garin1 Claudia Sampor2 I Nathalia Grigorovski3 IAlejandro Ceciliano4 I Adriana Fandino5 Diego Ossandon5.6 Veronica Perez7Rafaela Caixetas I Joaquim Caetano Aguirre Neto?I Sandra Alarcon Sonia Silva?Luiz Teixeira10 Celia Gianotti Antoneli11 I Clarissa Mattosinho3 Carlos Leal-Leal12Guilherme Castela?Flavio Requejo2 I Jaume Catala13 Carla Macedo11Guillermo L Chantada413,14Departmentofophthalmology.Universidad de Chile.Santiago.Chile2Hematology-Oncology Service,Hospital de Pediatria SAMICJuan P Garrahan,Buenos Aires,Argentina3Pediatric Oncology Service,Instituto Nacional do Cancer,INCA Rio de Janeiro,BrazilAInterventional Neuroradiology,Hospital Universitario Austral,Pilar,Argentina5Ophthalmology Service.Clinica Alemana de.Santiago.Chile6Ophthalmology Service,Hospital San Juan de Dios,Santiago.Chile7Pediatric Oncology Service,Hospital Santa Casa,Belo Horizonte.BrazilPediatricOncology Service,Instituto Nacionalde Enfermedades Neoplasicas,INEN.Lima,PeruPediatric Oncology Service.Centro Hospitalar Universitariode Coimbra,Coimbra.Portugal0Ophthalmology Service,Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina,Sao Paulo,Brazil11Pediatric Oncology.Universidade Novede ulho.Sao Paulo,Brazil12Pediatric Oncology Service,Hospitallnfantil Privado,Mexico City.Mexico13Ophthalmology Service.Hospital SantJoan de Deu.Barcelona,Spain14Instituto de Investigacion en Medicina Traslacional,IIMT,Universidad Austral-CONICET,Pilar,ArgentinaCorrespondenceGuillermo L.Chantada,Hospital Sant Joan deAbstractDeu,Passeig Sant Joan de Deu 2 HospitalUniversitario Austral,Av Peron 1500.Pilar,Local therapies are increasingly used for ocular preservation in retinoblastoma.InProvincia Buenos Aires,Argentina.middle-income countries,these techniques pose specific challenges mostly relatedEmail:gchantada@yahoo.comto more advanced disease at diagnosis.The Grupo de America Latina de OncologiaFunding informationPediatrica(GALOP)developed a consensus document for the management of conser-Fund for opthalmic knowledgevative therapy for retinoblastoma.Intra-arterial chemotherapy (OAC)is the preferredtherapy,except for those with less advanced disease or age younger than 6 months.OAC allowed for a reduction in the use of external beam radiotherapy in our setting.Abbreviations:EBRT.external beam radiotherapy:HRPF.high-risk pathology features:OAC.ophthalmic artery chemosurgery:UBM.ultrasound biomicroscopy.Pediatr Blood Cancer.2023e30352wileyonline library.com/journal/pbc2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.1of8https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc 30352
