Pediatrics
October 2015, VOLUME 136 / ISSUE 4
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Monthly Feature
Treating Children With Cancer Worldwide—Challenges and Interventions
Trijn Israels, Julia Challinor, Scott Howard, and Ramandeep Harman Arora
Pediatrics 2015; 136:607-610
Summary
Although morbidity from childhood cancer is second only to unintentional injuries in high-income countries, in low-income countries, it hardly hits the radar screen compared with death from pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal sepsis, preterm birth, and neonatal asphyxia. Nevertheless, the extraordinary progress made in treating childhood cancer in high-income countries brings into harsh focus the mammoth disparities that exist in impoverished areas of the world. As the capacity to diagnose and treat childhood cancer improves in low- and middle-income countries, the ability to improve outcomes for the more common diseases benefits as well. The authors have summarized the issues related to childhood cancer care with thoughtful attention to how children everywhere can gain from the advances in medical science in high-income nations.
Jay E. Berkelhamer
Column Editor