Dr Kristin Schroeder
Children living in low-resource settings with cancer are much less likely to survive than children in high-resource settings1. In the next two episodes we explore reasons for this and how we can address this disparity.
Dr Kristin Schroeder is an Assistant Professor of global health and paediatrics at Duke Global Health Institute. In this episode, Dr Schroeder shares her experience of setting up a paediatric oncology programme in the lake zone of Tanzania.
The iCCARE Foundation is an organisation co-founded by Dr Schroeder and Professor Nelson Chao to support capacity development in Tanzania. Listen in to understand what role this organisation has and check out their website where you can also donate.
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Key references/useful resources for this episode:
“For specific cancer types, such as childhood cancers, survival can be greater than 80% in high-resource settings and less than 20% in low-resource settings”.
“Massive inequalities in paediatric cancer care are a blemish on a global cancer enterprise that too often celebrates marginal wins.”
More information from the Paediatric Oncology International Network for Training and Education (POINTE) can be found here. Treatment guidelines from the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) can be found here.
