By Jo Hopkins | Chief Executive of World Child Cancer
Over the last three months there have been three training visits by healthcare professionals from the UK and Amsterdam. Dr Simon Bailey and Nurse Hannah Di-Lullo from Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary visited in May to provide training courses for doctors and nurses. Dr Trijn Israels, from Amsterdam, visited in June and provided further training for local staff and mentoring for the project leader. We are very grateful to Simon, Hannah and Trijn for participating in these visits.
Survival rates for Burkitts lymphoma are now 60% and for Wilm tumor patients they are 48%. Survival for acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients is 15% from a base of zero less than two years ago.
The project leader, Professor Liz Molyneux, attended the SIOP Africa conference in Cape Town in March and spoke to delegates about the project.
We are delighted with how the project is progressing and would like to thank all our Global Giving supporters.
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