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Wilms’ Tumor in Resource-Challenged Nations

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Ignorance, poverty, cultural issues, late presentations, concomitant malnutrition and other infections and infestations, limited resources, therapy abandonment, and lack of post-therapy surveillance are the different reasons that lead to poor outcomes for pediatric Wilms’ tumors in low- and middle-income countries. These factors mandate prioritization in resource utilization so to save and cure those who have better prognosis and use of adapted regimens that could give comparable outcomes in such settings. The learning objectives of this chapter include knowledge of the challenges to Wilms’ tumor care in resource challenged nations and that of the cost-effective “adapted regimens” used there that may be different from the regimens used in high-income countries.

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Sarin, Y.K. (2022). Wilms’ Tumor in Resource-Challenged Nations. In: Sarin, Y.K. (eds) Wilms’ Tumor. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3428-5_22

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