Don Dizon: The heart of Global Oncology – striving together for equity for people living with cancer everywhere
Don Dizon, Director of the Pelvic Malignancies Program at Brown University Health, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Joining dear friends for the 5th Bangladesh Society of Breast Cancer Studies in Dhaka. A collegial friendship spanning almost ten years, since my time at MGH working with Paul Goss and his Global Cancer Institute.
Privileged to tour the National Institute of Cancer Research, where oncologists work 6 days a week, and still the people keep coming. Doing so much with limited resources, where wait times to treatment can stretch to many months.
One needs a ticket to be seen – handed out in a first come, first serve basis. If one doesn’t have it by mid afternoon, they must wait to be seen the following day.
At their multidisciplinary meetings, they run through as many as 70 patients in a day, making a coordinated treatment plan, often with the patient and their loved ones in the room.
The need is so great, the commitment of the cancer team so deep. This is at the heart of Global Oncology – teaching about new developments and standards of care, but also learning about delivery of care outside of the United States, striving together for equity for people living with cancer everywhere.”
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ESMO 2024 Congress
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ASCO Annual Meeting
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Yvonne Award 2024
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OncoThon 2024, Online
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Global Summit on War & Cancer 2023, Online
Dec. 14-16, 2023