Improving childhood cancer care in Latin America and the Caribbean: a PAHO Childhood Cancer Working Group position statement

Avram Denburg¹, Cristóbal Cuadrado², Cheryl Alexis³, Federico Antillón Klussmann⁴, José Carlos Barrantes Zamora⁵, Curt Bodkyn⁶, Myriam Campbell Bull⁷, Gustavo Dufort Y Alvarez⁸, Latoya Gooding⁹, Tezer Kutluk¹⁰, Silvana Luciani¹¹, Jessyca Karina Manner Marcillo¹², Sandro Martins¹³, Monika Metzger¹⁴, Anyul Milena Vera¹⁵, Florencia Moreno¹⁶, Jabibi Noguera¹⁷, Armando Pena Hernandez¹⁸, Karina Quintero Delgado¹⁹, Michelle-Ann Richards-Dawson²⁰, Marcelo Scopinaro²¹, Jaime Shalkow Klincovstein²², Corrine Sinquee-Brown²³, Amaranto Suarez²⁴, Julie Torode²⁵, Caridad Verdecia²⁶, Roberto Franklin Vásquez²⁷, Sumit Gupta²⁸

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¹ Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada. Electronic address: avram.denburg@sickkids.ca.
² School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
³ Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados.
⁴ National Unit of Pediatric Oncology, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
⁵ National Children's Hospital, San Jose, Costa Rica.
⁶ University of the West Indies at St Augustine Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
⁷ National Pediatric Cancer Program, Ministry of Health, Santiago, Chile.
⁸ Pediatric Oncology Center of the Pereira Rossell Hospital, Montevideo, Uruguay.
⁹ Oncology Department, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Georgetown, Guyana.
¹⁰ Immediate Past President of the Union for International Cancer Control, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
¹² Children's Hospital "Dr Francisco de Icaza Bustamante", Guyaquil, Ecuador.
¹³ Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Brazil.
¹⁴ St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
¹⁵ Ministry of Health, Bogota, Colombia.
¹⁶ Argentina National Cancer Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁷ Children's General Hopsital "Acosta Ñú", Asuncion, Paraguay.
¹⁸ Hospital Escuela Universitario, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
¹⁹ National Children's Hospital, Panama City, Panama.
²⁰ Bustamante Children's Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica.
²¹ Garrahan Hospital, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²² National Childhood Cancer Program, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico.
²³ The Cancer Center, Nassau, The Bahamas.
²⁴ Colombia National Cancer Institute, Bogota, Colombia.
²⁵ Union for International Cancer Control, Geneva, Switzerland.
²⁶ Children's Hospital "Willian Soler", Havana, Cuba.
²⁷ National Hospital "Benjamin Bloom", San Salvador, El Salvador.
²⁸ Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada.

PMID: 28593842
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30325-X

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Improving childhood cancer care in Latin America and the Caribbean: a PAHO Childhood Cancer Working Group position statement

Avram Denburg et al. Lancet Oncol. 2017 Jun.

. 2017 Jun;18(6):709-711.

doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30325-X.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada. Electronic address: avram.denburg@sickkids.ca.
² School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
³ Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados.
⁴ National Unit of Pediatric Oncology, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
⁵ National Children's Hospital, San Jose, Costa Rica.
⁶ University of the West Indies at St Augustine Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
⁷ National Pediatric Cancer Program, Ministry of Health, Santiago, Chile.
⁸ Pediatric Oncology Center of the Pereira Rossell Hospital, Montevideo, Uruguay.
⁹ Oncology Department, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Georgetown, Guyana.
¹⁰ Immediate Past President of the Union for International Cancer Control, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
¹² Children's Hospital "Dr Francisco de Icaza Bustamante", Guyaquil, Ecuador.
¹³ Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Brazil.
¹⁴ St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
¹⁵ Ministry of Health, Bogota, Colombia.
¹⁶ Argentina National Cancer Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁷ Children's General Hopsital "Acosta Ñú", Asuncion, Paraguay.
¹⁸ Hospital Escuela Universitario, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
¹⁹ National Children's Hospital, Panama City, Panama.
²⁰ Bustamante Children's Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica.
²¹ Garrahan Hospital, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²² National Childhood Cancer Program, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico.
²³ The Cancer Center, Nassau, The Bahamas.
²⁴ Colombia National Cancer Institute, Bogota, Colombia.
²⁵ Union for International Cancer Control, Geneva, Switzerland.
²⁶ Children's Hospital "Willian Soler", Havana, Cuba.
²⁷ National Hospital "Benjamin Bloom", San Salvador, El Salvador.
²⁸ Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada.

PMID: 28593842
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30325-X

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