Global Health & Childhood Cancer

How does a child with cancer in India access care? If you’ve ever had an illness that was difficult to diagnose, you know that navigating the medical system can be incredibly frustrating. Bouncing back and forth between doctors, taking time off of work or school, waiting for hours upon hours, all while you don’t feel […]

How many healthcare professionals in the world are caring for children with cancer? Tap the link for more info: https://siop-online.org/globalmapping/  This is a very important question. How many people are caring for kids with cancer around the world? Where are they located? What regions have few or no doctors available? For a child with cancer, […]

Have you ever completed a very difficult puzzle? (Below is just an intro! – Click here to go to the whole essay.  You don’t want to miss it!) Perhaps it was thousands of small pieces with colors that blend together, so that most of the pieces appeared very similar. Do you remember the overwhelmed feeling […]

Have you ever completed a very difficult puzzle? (Below is just an intro! – Click here to go to the whole essay.  You don’t want to miss it!) Perhaps it was thousands of small pieces with colors that blend together, so that most of the pieces appeared very similar. Do you remember the overwhelmed feeling […]

How do we measure the impact of a childhood cancer diagnosis?  There are many ways to we could try to measure the total burden of childhood cancer in the world. We could count the number of new cases per year, for instance, a measure called incidence. Or we could count the number of patients who […]

Food is Medicine: Promoting nutrition in global oncology Studies show that children with cancer who are well nourished have better treatment outcomes than those who are malnourished. Unfortunately, many children in developing countries are malnourished even before they are diagnosed with cancer, their nutritional status only worsens due to the combined effect of the disease […]

The Transformative Perspective In the last few months, evidence has emerged that pediatric cancer is more common, more deadly, and responsible for a much larger proportion of the global burden of disease than we previously believed. Moreover, recent publications show that pediatric oncology is not only possible to treat in low-resource countries with risk-adapted protocols, […]