These events took place at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar.

The Symposium on Childhood Cancer was held on April 26 (9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.). The symposium was moderated by Prof. S. Diop and Prof. M. Raphaël.

In the presence of Dr. Amy Fall-Ndao, Medical Director forSanofi's Global Health Unit.

The presentations were excellent on thefollowing topics:

• Childhood cancers, the paradox of carcinogenesis, Prof. M. Gadji;
• Contribution of immunolabeling, immunophenotyping, Prof. A. Sall;
• Immunohistochemistry, Prof. C.Dial;
• Immunotherapy in childhood cancers, Dr. M. NdellaDiouf;
• Presentation of the Reference Center for the Diagnosis of Childhood Cancers (CRDCE), Prof. M. Raphaël.

Attached is the CRDCE presentation, which shows the implementation of the CRDCE, which began in July 2020, demonstrating the progress made in developing structures that enable better diagnosis of these tumors.

The outlook is to maintain the activities put in place by securing long-term funding, installing an immunohistochemistry machine in response to the increase in activity for this technique, which is still manual,developinga new tele-pathology site, probably located at UCAD or using a platform operating in other structures, the organization of training such as a new immunohistochemistry or cytometry workshop, cytogenetics, the extension to other Senegalese sites or other African countries of the use of this center to improve diagnostics, and finally, discussion around the establishment of university training (DU) courses related to this training.