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Treatment abandonment is the leading cause of treatment failure for childhood cancer in much of the low- and middle-income world, driven by bus fares, lost income and the cost of food and lodging. Conditional cash, transport vouchers and family accommodation have cut abandonment sharply in Central America, East Africa and India, and should be funded in every curative protocol.
Treatment abandonment is the leading cause of treatment failure for childhood cancer in much of the low- and middle-income world, and is driven by transport cost, lost income, and lodging. Programmes providing conditional cash, transport vouchers, and family accommodation (in Central America, East Africa, and India) have cut abandonment dramatically at low cost. The proposal is to make an abandonment-prevention package a standard, funded component of every curative protocol in LMIC centres and to report abandonment as a quality indicator.
Shares Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Hodgkin lymphoma, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Shares Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Shares Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Shares Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Shares Paediatric oncology roadmap: cooperative-group cures → engineered immunity → drugs developed for children first, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Hodgkin lymphoma, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.