Dear SIOP Members, We stand in solidarity with our SIOP members, paediatric and adolescent cancer patients and survivors, their families, all the healthcare professionals and residents of Beirut who have been impacted by Tuesday’s devastating tragedy at the nation’s port. We are saddened to hear that many hospitals and health clinics are damaged or destroyed [...]

Dear Colleagues, We have taken the decision to refine ecancermedicalscience’s submission criteria to only accept articles which feature at least one author from a Lower and Middle Income Country (LMIC), or which have a significant impact on under-resourced settings.   This pioneering approach will allow us to contribute towards addressing the current imbalance in global scientific [...]

This statement is submitted by UICC, WCRFI and SIOP, supported by ECCO and NCDA. The current pandemic is highlighting and widening inequities in health systems globally. Effectively tackling COVID-19 and its repercussions requires a comprehensive, coordinated global response. We welcome the recognition of key vulnerable groups including those with pre-existing conditions like cancer and other [...]

Geneva, Switzerland – April 22, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented global threat to the safe and effective care for children with cancer. As an official non-state actor with WHO and one of the major stakeholders in the WHO “Global Initiative on Childhood Cancer”, the International Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) recognised that there [...]

  Nicole Schneider, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist at Texas Children’s Hospital, where she specializes in working with children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer.  She will be completing two posts on mental health in the pediatric oncology workplace. As one might expect, taking care of chronically and critically ill patients can be extremely emotionally […]

SIOP Asia in collaboration with CCI Asia has produced a Childhood Cancer Resources Directory. You can view the directory here.