Each year~ 429,000 children and adolescents aged 0 to 19 years are expected to develop
cancer. Five-year survival rates exceed 80% for the 45,000 children with cancer in high …

In low-income and middle-income countries, an excess in treatment failure for children with
cancer usually results from misdiagnosis, inadequate access to treatment, death from …

Non-communicable diseases, including cancer, are overtaking infectious disease as the
leading health-care threat in middle-income and low-income countries. Latin American and …

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is providing new insights into human
biology and cancer. In this era of big data, we are amassing large amounts of information …

Childhood cancer burden is shifted toward LMICs; global initiatives directed at pediatric
cancer care and control are urgently needed. International partnerships facilitating stepwise …

Background Treatment options for childhood cancer have improved substantially, although
in many low-and middle-income countries survival is lagging behind. Integral childhood …

Background The global cancer burden falls disproportionately on low and middle-income
countries (LMICs). One significant barrier to adequate cancer control in these countries is …

Introduction: Telepathology evolved from video microscopy (ie,“television microscopy”)
research in the early 1950s to video microscopy used in basic research in the biological …

Across much of Africa, there is a critical shortage of pathology services. A survey from 2016
estimated that there are more than 500,000 people per pathologist in much of the continent …

Purpose As the morbidity and mortality associated with communicable diseases continue to
decrease in the developing world, the medical burden of childhood cancer continues to …