Establishing a pediatric radiation oncology department in a low- and middle-income country: Major challenge in implementing the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Oct;68(10):e29233. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29233. Epub 2021 Aug 6.

Authors

Mithra Ghalibafian¹, Maryam Masoudifar¹, Ehsan Mohammadi¹, Theodore Girinsky², Odile Oberlin³, Eric Bouffet⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, MAHAK Pediatric Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
⁴ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 34357689
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.29233

No abstract available

Keywords: GICC; LMIC; pediatric oncology; radiotherapy.

MeSH terms

Child
Developing Countries
Humans
Income
Neoplasms* / radiotherapy
Pediatrics*
Poverty
Radiation Oncology*