background: caring is a valuable task. the staff in any profession that involves patients’ fear, anxiety, pain, and suffering may experience similar feelings. as a professional group, oncology nurses deal with patients and their relatives and caregivers under very stressful conditions. they encounter pain, suffering, and death as a part of their daily life. a number of studies have evaluated th...

The COVID-19 pandemic quickly led to an abundance of publications and recommendations, despite a paucity information on how affects children with cancer. This created dire need for trusted resource curated space the pediatric oncology community share experiences. Global Observatory Resource Center Childhood Cancer was developed, launched, maintained by International Society Pediatric Oncology S...

Delayed presentation of children with cancer is a significant barrier to improving the survival from children's cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Botswana, a country of approximately 2 million people in southern Africa, has only 1 pediatric cancer treatment program, based at Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) in the capital of Gaborone. A pediatric cancer recognition training prog...

Children are not “miniature” adults! Most experts around the world recognize differences between adult and pediatric thyroid cancer emphasize need for specific guidelines population. The American Thyroid Association (ATA) first developed separate Guidelines Treatment of Pediatric Nodules Carcinoma (hereafter, ATA Guidelines) in 2015 [1], which has been revised to date. In September 2022, Europe...

Children and adolescents young adults (AYAs) with cancer are often treated a multidisciplinary approach. This includes use of radiotherapy, which is important for local control, but may also cause adverse events in the long term, including second cancer. The risks limited growth development, endocrine dysfunction, reduced fertility children AYAs by proton beam therapy (PBT), has dose distributi...

Pediatric oncology in Pakistan has developed over last decade with substantial increase in the facility for treatment and number of expertise. Though large numbers of children still do not reach treatment center more children have now access to quality cancer treatment. There has been gradual improvement in Pediatric oncology nursing and allied services. Pediatric Palliative care in Pakistan is...

objectives: some of the mothers of children with cancer suffer from reactive depression and confront existential crises, and benefit from their image of god in coping with it. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of spiritually-oriented cognitive therapy on reducing depression symptoms in mothers of children with cancer. methods: a single case experimental design and an ...

BACKGROUND The reported proportion of cancer patients who experience hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is low, particularly in the pediatric population, ranging between <1% and 5%. HCM can be observed with any type of tumor in children and occurs most commonly with leukemia. While HCM is a potentially fatal condition, the prevalence of HCM is not well understood in pediatric cancer patients. ...