Here is another one I wrote a few years ago on the Max Healthcare platform. This talks about the 5 Types of Paediatric Cancer You Need to Know Abouthttps://www.maxhealthcare.in/blogs/5-types-paediatric-cancer-you-need-know-about ..read more

 I am in the process of bringing all y blog posts in one place. Here is something I wrote a few years ago on the Max Healthcare platform. https://www.maxhealthcare.in/blogs/childhood-cancer-can-be-treatedIt is intended for the general public. The types of cancer affecting children are quite different from the cancers that affect teenagers and young adults. Childhood cancers have become a menace ..read more

For the last few weeks, we have all watched with horror at the unfolding events in Ukraine. The casualties of war are not only the armed forces personnel, but also civilians (men, women and children) in Ukraine who have been caught in the cross-fire and the bombings of residential areas, theatres, markets and even hospitals. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ..read more

 High risk neuroblastoma continues to be a childhood cancer which is challenging to treat and has poor outcomes. While smaller increments in survival have been made over the years, a big step-up in survival was when Anti-GD2 therapy (now known as Dinutuximab) was introduced and this was published by Yu et al in this landmark study. I had written a blog on this in 2010 and also reflected on the ..read more

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the family faces a variety of new medical terms and challenges. It is vital that parents understand the many aspects of the illness and treatment, as well as the experiences they may face and have to cope with during the treatment process. At such times, consistent, repeated and reliable information is invaluable. One way to deliver this is through written ..read more

The 21st century has see the emergence of multi-centre collaborative research from low and middle income countries with reports from Central America, Africa, China and India. This is a very welcome development and I will briefly describe some of these initiatives below. But I would like to start with Brazil where cooperative groups for childhood cancer started in the 1980s.The Brazilian ..read more

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and it is a good time to reflect on the progress we have made in curing childhood cancer and how we got here. An important part has been the ability of all stakeholders to get together and enroll children with cancer on to clinical trails, specially multicentre collaborative research. In this first part I look at some of the earliest works done in ..read more

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: increasing survival rates for children with cancer ..read more

Today we complete 73 years of our independent existence and celebrate our 14th Independence day. The strides we have made as a nation are truly enormous and are acknowledged widely. At the same time, the challenges which remain are no less mighty and we need to continue on the path of relentless progress to overcome hunger, poverty, ill health, strife, pollution, among others. At this time I ..read more

Cure from childhood cancer is now a justifies expectation and with the right treatment most children would get cured of their cancer and achieve long-term survival. While the goal is that this long-term survival is normal, experience has taught us that some survivors suffer from late side-effects. This has been an area of intense focus in the last few decades and there is now growing evidence on ..read more