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Yuliya Nogovitsyna, Tabletochki Foundation’s Program Director, co-authored a paper on the Strategies to promote sustainable care for children with cancer in Ukraine, which was published in The Lancet Oncology, the most authoritative peer-reviewed medical journal in the world.
The paper was co-authored by the team of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in particular associate Member of Critical Care Medicine and Global Pediatric Medicine Asya Agulnik, and Roman Kizyma, acting director of the Clinical Center for Children’s Healthcare in Lviv oblast.
The paper addresses the impact of the war on the treatment of childhood cancer in Ukraine, including the mathematical modeling of the number of new cases of childhood cancer in the coming years. The publication also proposes strategies for the sustainable development of childhood cancer care in Ukraine, primarily its centralization at the level of reference centers.
This involves the development of multidisciplinary pediatric hospitals where the relevant expertise, resources, multidisciplinary teams and flows of patients will be accumulated. For the number of new childhood cancer cases that are currently estimated to arise in Ukraine (about 650 per year), it is enough to have several such reference centers per country to ensure high-quality and affordable treatment for all Ukrainian children with cancer.
“Centralising care on a national level allows for consolidation of resources and expertise, leading to development of specialised centres that can provide high-quality, comprehensive care to paediatric oncology patients, resulting in improved outcomes. Additionally, centralised care allows for development of coordinated tiered systems for referral and treatment, reducing the burden on patients and families and allowing for efficient use of limited health-care resources,” the article says.
You can find the full text of the article here.
Systemic changes in pediatric oncology are one of the pillars of the Foundation’s work. The war is not a reason to stop this advance. On the contrary, it encourages us to work even harder to ensure that children receive the best possible treatment in Ukraine.
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