EPISODES
23. Saving Lives by Supporting Families: The role of non-profits in cancer care with Bindu Nair of Aroh
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...
22. The Healthcare Labyrinth – exploring the journey to childhood cancer care with Dr. Neha Faruqui and Dr. Ramandeep Arora
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...
21. Coronavirus and the Immunocompromised – discussing COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Hotez
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...
20. Collaborating in Africa to Cure Wilms Tumor with Dr. Trijn Israels and Dr. Festus Njuguna
In the United States, 500-600 children are diagnosed with Wilms tumor annually. The disease accounts for about 5% of all childhood cancers and is the most common kind of kidney cancer in children....
19. The SIOP Global Mapping Project with Dr. Jennifer Geel
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...
18. It is Wildly Cost Effective to Treat Burkitt Lymphoma in Uganda – a conversation with Dr. Avram Denburg
How much does it cost to cure childhood cancer in Africa? The cost of cancer care in Africa, and other low- and middle-income countries, is an enormous question. Cancer is a very complex disease to...
17. The Global Childhood Cancer Puzzle is Taking Shape – Edge #1
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...
16. Counting the lives that should have been: Measuring the global burden of childhood cancer with Drs. Lisa Force and Nickhill Bhakta
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...
15. Food is Medicine: Promoting nutrition in global oncology with Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Erin Gordon
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,...
14. The Transformative Perspective: Pediatric oncology prioritization in health systems with Dr. Nickhill Bhakta
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...
13. Nurses take charge: How to advocate for a safer working environment for staff and patients with Lorena Segovia and Linda Abramovitz
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...
12. The Missing 3 Million: Estimating pediatric cancer incidence and survival with Dr. Jennifer Yeh and Zachary Ward
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...
11. Nurses are the final common pathway for safe care: The importance of baseline nursing standards with the SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group
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...
10. Educating parents of children with cancer through successful international collaboration with Dr. Erin McCann and Dr. Soad Fuentes Alabi
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...
9. Translating knowledge into action to reduce treatment abandonment with Dr. Paola Friedrich
Episode Summary On this episode we wrap up our 5-part series on treatment abandonment. In the last 4 episodes on the topic, (here, here, here, and here), we discussed the reasons why people abandon...
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