Addressing Childhood Cancer in Low-Resource Countries: Current Challenges, Strategies, and Recommendations.
Children and adolescents represent a small, but critically important, number of patients with cancer worldwide (14.1 million newly diagnosed adults versus 160,000 children annually). The life years saved when a child is cured of cancer are about 71 compared to 15 years for an adult in most high-income countries (HICs). In HICs, about 80% of children survive cancer. Unfortunately, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the survival rates are generally 50% or less. In these resource-limited settings, only 15%-37% of children and adolescents have access to cancer treatment, and most are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease, making cure impossible.
Banso Baptist Hospital.
Glenn
G
Mbah Afungchwi
University of California.
Julia
J
Challinor
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015996:Survival Rate
adolescence; care of the medically underserved; pediatric oncology; young adult