pakistan

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  More than 50,000 children have thalassemia major in Pakistan (photos), for many bone marrow transplantation offers the only chance of survival. Cure2Children has supported the cure of an initial group of children and gave a critical contribution to the start up of two new transplant units managed by Pakistani professionals.

  Cure2Children, with SOS Infanzia nel Mondo, Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, and the Italian peace-keeping force, has supported the treament of the first children with leukemia in Kosovo (photos).

   

• Cure2Children's BMT Nursing course in Islamabad

  After almost two years we have the feeling that the engine is running. Our first child (Aslam), a two-years old with thalassemia, has undergone transplantation 8 days ago at the National Institute of Blood Disease of Karachi. Our team is expanding: Roberta Caraher, Pietro Sodani and Cristiano Gallucci participated in a short training session on bone marrow transplantation support care for nurses held at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).

• Pediatric Malignancies Workshop - Pakistan

  Pediatric Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation, Supportive Care Workshop.

  Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre

  Lahore, Pakistan, July 12-13, 2008

   

• Support to the Pakistan pediatric oncology groupSeveral institution in Pakistan manage children with cancer and leukaemia. In order to comply to participate to international studies and offer the best possible care, it is very important that the pediatric oncohematology professionals establish a formal association fostering a collaboration among different centers. The potential patient load is extremily high as it is the potential experience and knowledge that this group could develop and contribute to the international community.
  C2C would like to support the establishment of a formal organization, a website, data management. In the contest of a collaborative network C2C would like to provide any expertise or equipment that will foster the availability of priority diagnostic standards such as t (9;22) and t (4;11) traslocations detection or flow cytometry for minimal disease evaluation.
• International Symposium on Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

  The Symposium will highlight important issues of relevance to tropical medicine,clinical and public health practice in Pakistan and the Developing world.

  Organized by: Aga Khan University/RSTMH/IDSP
  Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 September 2007
  www.aku.edu/news/seminars/rstmh/

• A pediatric tumor tissue bank in Pakistan This project would like to provide technical support and equipment for the establishment of a tissue bank of pediatric leukaemia and solid tumor samples. This is very important to both patients than may require diagnostic confirmation and any research project involving childhood cancer in Pakistan and internationally.
• A thalassemia major prevention program in PakistanThis project will proceed in parallel with the transplantation program and will aim at the screening of first-degree relative of thalassemia patients enrolled in the transplantation program. In fact the carrier frequency in this selected population will probably be in the range of 30% as opposed to the 5-6% of the general population in Pakistan. Considering that the average number of children per family is 4, the total number of first degree relatives will be 30 (6 uncle/aountie plus 24 cousins). Brothers and sisters of the transplant candidate will be evaluated as part of transplant preparation.