Pediatric oncology research in low income countries: Ethical concepts and challenges

This is a recent paper published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer highlighting the importance of balancing the "risks" associated with research in pediatric oncology in low income countries with its potential benefits.

Powerful Ideas for Global Access to Medicines

In this piece from the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Suerie Moon from the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; and the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, proposes ideas to promote & facilite access to medicines (...)

Repurposing Approved and Abandoned Drugs for the Treatment and Prevention of Cancer through Public-Private Partnership

Role of American Society of Clinical Oncology in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Treatment Abandonment is a Major Hurdle to Improving Survival in Childhood Cancer in the Developing World

This is a new study published Mohammed Ramzan, Satya Prakash Yadav and Anupam Sachdeva from the Pediatric Hematology Oncology and BMT Unit, Department of Pediatrics from the Institute of Child Health Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, India investigating abandonment of treatment in their center. A total of 234 out of 802 (29%) children diagnosed with (...)