What do you do if you don’t have enough money to pay for your child’s cancer treatment? This is one of the difficult questions faced by some families in India today. Answering this question is one of the reasons Aroh, a non-profit that supports families with children enduring cancer treatment, was founded. Today on the […]

Global Health & Childhood Cancer

23. Saving Lives by Supporting Families: The role of non-profits in cancer care with Bindu Nair of Aroh

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 […]

22. The Healthcare Labyrinth – exploring the journey to childhood cancer care with Dr. Neha Faruqui and Dr. Ramandeep Arora

How should healthcare workers caring for immunocompromised patients think about the coronavirus epidemic?  The novel coronavirus, now called COVID-19, is a worrisome disease, particularly for healthcare workers caring for immunocompromised patients. What do providers taking care of kids with cancer or other vulnerable patients need to know?. In this episode, I interviewed one of the […]

21. Coronavirus and the Immunocompromised – discussing COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Hotez

20. Collaborating in Africa to Cure Wilms Tumor with Dr. Trijn Israels and Dr. Festus Njuguna

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, […]

19. The SIOP Global Mapping Project with Dr. Jennifer Geel

18. Treating Burkitt Lymphoma in Uganda is Wildly Cost Effective – a conversation with Dr. Avram Denburg

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 […]

17. The Global Childhood Cancer Puzzle is Taking Shape – Edge #1

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 […]

16. Counting the lives that should have been: Measuring the global burden of childhood cancer with Drs. Lisa Force and Nickhill Bhakta

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 […]

15. Food is Medicine: Promoting nutrition in global oncology with Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Erin Gordon

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, […]

14. The Transformative Perspective: Pediatric oncology prioritization in health systems with Dr. Nickhill Bhakta

SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group: The Advocacy Toolkit Today on the podcast, we discuss a new advocacy toolkit that nurses can use to help improve the safety of their work environment and the quality of care they provide to patients. This discussion is a follow-up to episode 11, where we discussed the Baseline Nursing Standards […]

13. Nurses take charge: How to advocate for a safer working environment for staff and patients with Lorena Segovia and Linda Abramovitz

Where are all of the pediatric cancer patients? There are times where new research completely changes the way one looks at a problem.  The two articles we discuss on this episode changed the way I think about global oncology.  Prior to reading the articles, if you asked me what is the most common reason for […]

12. The Missing 3 Million: Estimating pediatric cancer incidence and survival with Dr. Jennifer Yeh and Zachary Ward

SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group: Baseline Nursing Standards Nurses are one of the most important members of the healthcare team for children with cancer. In many ways, nurses are the final common pathway for providing care in both inpatient and outpatient settings.  Oftentimes in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), healthcare systems do not emphasize nursing […]

11. Nurses are the final common pathway for safe care: The importance of baseline nursing standards with the SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group

Parents of childhood cancer patients are arguably the most important members of a child’s treatment team.  Yet many times in resource-limited settings, parents are not equipped with the knowledge to successfully care for the specialized heath needs fo their children.  On this episode of GHCC, we discuss a multi-country assessment of the educational needs of […]

10. Educating parents of children with cancer through successful international collaboration with Dr. Erin McCann and Dr. Soad Fuentes Alabi

9. Translating knowledge into action to reduce treatment abandonment with Dr. Paola Friedrich

Exploring the ideas in global health that can save the lives of children with cancer.