Jeremy Slone, Director of Hospitalist Medicine Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper by Chifumbe Chintu et al. published in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood:
“September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
While over 80% of children with cancer now survive, that is limited to children living in high-income countries like the USA. Throughout this month, I am posting articles focused on work being done around the world to ensure that all children, regardless of where they are born, have access to cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Global Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Papers No. 4: This 1995 paper by the late Prof. Chifumbe Chintu, whom I had a chance to work with and learn from in Zambia, demonstrated the strikingly increased incidence of Kaposi sarcoma in children in that country. KS is a virus-associated cancer that is often seen in immunosuppressed individuals. In this instance, KS incidence was increasing from the HIV epidemic developing in that region at that time.”
Title: Childhood cancers in Zambia before and after the HIV epidemic
Authors: C Chintu, U H Athale, P S Patil
You can read the Full Article in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood.
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