Trijn Israels: Honoured to have won an award for Best Abstract at the SIOP meeting

Trijn Israels, Paediatric Oncologist at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“We are honoured and happy to have won an award for Best Abstract at the recent SIOP meeting in Hawaii for our research on the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers to sustainably prevent ‘treatment abandonment’ in sub-Saharan Africa.

A huge thank you to the SIOP scientific committee for recognizing the value and potential impact of our programme. There is still so much more to be done, and we look forward to continuing collaborating with all interested and relevant parties to continue and raise funds, evaluate impact and implementation of interventions, create local evidence, advocate.

Together we are stronger to empower families of children with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure their children complete treatment.

We acknowledge the wonderful support of our funders SIOP PARC and Foundation S.”

Maite Gorostegui, Pediatric Oncologist at Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona, shared this post, adding:

“It’s all about the families. A deserved award for an extraordinary work to prevent treatment abandonment. Take the time to read Trijn Israels post and follow CANCaRe Africa. We hope more good things are coming to improve realities and help children to complete their treatments.

It was also great the Symposium about treatment abandonment that the International Society of Paediatric Oncology – SIOP organized at the Congress, where Zero Abandonment implementation and assessment was shared by Trijn, and we also learnt from parents’ perspectives, presented by Nmazuo Ozuah, and patient tracking strategies, presented by Ramandeep Arora.

Excellent discussion and call for global cooperation. I missed my friend Neil Ranasinghe, we will continue trying our best to advocate and to share local evidence with you. Prevention of treatment abandonment saves lives.”

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Trijn Israels is the Project Leader for “Zero Abandonment from Start to Finish” at CANCaRe Africa, a role she has held since January 2023. She has been the Chair of CANCaRe Africa since July 2017, focusing on collaborative efforts in childhood cancer care and research across Africa. Additionally, she chairs the Wilms Africa Project, which
she has led since April 2014.

Dr. Israels serves as a Pediatric Oncologist at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi, since July 2021. Prior to this, she coordinated clinical research in SubSaharan Africa for the Outreach Programme Academy at the Prinses Máxima Centrum voor kinderoncologie from February 2018 to July 2021. Her earlier experience includes pediatrician roles at Amphia Ziekenhuis and Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis in the Netherlands from 2011 to 2018.

Maite Gorostegui is a Pediatric Oncologist at Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and an extracranial solid tumor expert. Gorostegui specialises in treating children and adolescents with various cancers and focuses her research particuon neuroblastoma, germ cell tumours, nephroblastoma, and rare cancers.

She serves as Chair of the SIOP Global Mapping Programme and collaborates as co-lead for the Group of Hereditary and Rare Tumors on the Cure4kids platform in Latin America.”