Pediatric oncology services in Nepal

Cancer in children is one of the emerging noncommunicable diseases in Nepal with significant morbidity and mortality. Significant efforts are being made at the government and nongovernment level to provide awareness, early diagnosis, and effective treatment to improve the cure rate of children with...

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Autores principales: Sah, Kailash Prasad, Arora, Ramandeep Singh, Sapkota, Sulav, Poudel, Yamuna, Pizer, Barry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422811
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.142987
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author Sah, Kailash Prasad
Arora, Ramandeep Singh
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Pizer, Barry
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description Cancer in children is one of the emerging noncommunicable diseases in Nepal with significant morbidity and mortality. Significant efforts are being made at the government and nongovernment level to provide awareness, early diagnosis, and effective treatment to improve the cure rate of children with cancer. The major challenges include: lack of education, late diagnosis, advanced disease at presentation, financial problems, geographical and transportation difficulties, and inconsistent supply of chemotherapy medicines.
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spelling pubmed-42367032014-11-24 Pediatric oncology services in Nepal Sah, Kailash Prasad Arora, Ramandeep Singh Sapkota, Sulav Poudel, Yamuna Pizer, Barry South Asian J Cancer SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE Cancer in children is one of the emerging noncommunicable diseases in Nepal with significant morbidity and mortality. Significant efforts are being made at the government and nongovernment level to provide awareness, early diagnosis, and effective treatment to improve the cure rate of children with cancer. The major challenges include: lack of education, late diagnosis, advanced disease at presentation, financial problems, geographical and transportation difficulties, and inconsistent supply of chemotherapy medicines. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4236703/ /pubmed/25422811 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.142987 Text en Copyright: © South Asian Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sah, Kailash Prasad
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Sapkota, Sulav
Poudel, Yamuna
Pizer, Barry
Pediatric oncology services in Nepal
title Pediatric oncology services in Nepal
title_full Pediatric oncology services in Nepal
title_fullStr Pediatric oncology services in Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Pediatric oncology services in Nepal
title_short Pediatric oncology services in Nepal
title_sort pediatric oncology services in nepal
topic SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422811
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.142987
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