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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 that blend together, so that most of the pieces appeared very similar. Do...
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 cases per year, for instance, a measure called incidence. Or we could...
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, many children in developing countries are malnourished even before...
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 disease than we previously believed. Moreover, recent publications show...
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 of care they provide to patients. This discussion is a follow-up to...
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 think about global oncology. Prior to reading the articles, if you...
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