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Pediatric Oncology, Palliative Care and Low- or Middle- Income Countries: A Call for Action
Global Pediatric Health, 2023 Pediatric oncology, which includes cancer screening and therapy in children, poses significant challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Palliative care improves children’s and their families’ quality of life.
Mohd Faizan Siddiqui MD +8 more
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Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, 2014 Objectives: The health care scenario in India is experiencing an increase in the number of children affected with cancer and the number of pediatric oncologists available to treat these children are few and the awareness of childhood cancer is decimally ...
Ram Prakash Thirugnanasambandam +5 more
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Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011 Introduction: Pediatric oncology patients are at increased risk of contracting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which are responsible for increased morbidity and mortality rates as well as treatment costs.
Naveed- ur-Rehman Siddiqui +3 more
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Evaluation of Learning Experience of Pediatric Oncology Nursing among Students at Embaba Technical Institute of Health [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2018 Learning experience is an important aspect of nursing education as it is the transformation of theoretical knowledge into practice and the cornerstone of nursing as a health profession.
Hyam Tantawi +3 more
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South Asian Journal of Cancer, 2015 Background :In India roughly 60000 childhood cancer cases are diagnosed annually with only nearly 100 pediatric oncologists. So it′s pertinent that the physicians and pediatricians are adequately equipped to recognize and refer them appropriately.
M Sneha Latha +5 more
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Pediatric oncologic endosurgery [PDF]
International Journal of Surgery Oncology, 2017 Despite increasing popularity of minimal-invasive techniques in the pediatric population, their use in diagnosis and management of pediatric malignancy is still debated. Moreover, there is limited evidence to clarify this controversy due to low incidence of each individual type of pediatric tumor, huge diversity of the disease entity, heterogeneity of ...
Boo, Yoon Jung +2 more
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Quality criteria for pediatric oncology centers: A systematic literature review
Cancer Medicine, 2023 Introduction Survival of children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer improved over the last decades due to better diagnostics, treatment, and supportive care. Quality criteria that measure, compare, and make the quality of care of individual pediatric
Sarah P. Schladerer +2 more
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JCO Global Oncology, 2020 PURPOSE Adequate clinical services have yet to be established in the majority of African countries, where childhood cancer survival rates vary from 8.1% to 30.3%. The aim of this review is to describe the landscape of pediatric oncology trials in Africa,
Jaques van Heerden +10 more
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Training in Pediatric Surgical Oncology
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Pediatric Surgical Oncology is a challenging sub-speciality field requiring strong discipline, resilience and a “never quit” attitude. Pediatric cancer patients are frail, vulnerable and have life limiting illness were the skill(s) of the operating ...
Paul D. Losty
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Pediatric Cardio-Oncology Medicine: A New Approach in Cardiovascular Care
Children, 2021 Survival for pediatric patients diagnosed with cancer has improved significantly. This achievement has been made possible due to new treatment modalities and the incorporation of a systematic multidisciplinary approach for supportive care.
Hugo R. Martinez +18 more
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