The value of reporting on end-of-treatment outcome of patients
in low-income settings
Trijn Israels MD PhD1,2, Ramandeep Singh Arora DCH,
MD3, Lillian Sung MD PhD4
1 Collaborative African Network for Childhood Cancer
Care and Research (CANCaRe Africa), 2 Kamuzu
University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, 3 Max
Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India, 4 Sick
Children’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Corresponding author:
Dr Trijn Israels, CANCaRe Africa, Department of Paediatrics, Kamuzu
University of Health Sciences (KuHES), Blantyre, Malawi. Email:
cancareafrica@gmail.com
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Short running title: End-of-treatment outcome reporting
Key words: childhood cancer, survival, LIC, indicators
LIC Low-income country
HIC High-income country
GICC Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer
EFS Event-free survival
OS Overall survival
TRM Treatment related mortality
DRM Disease related mortality
CANCaRe Africa Collaborative African Network for Childhood Cancer Care
and Research