{"id":5048,"date":"2019-10-15T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.pediatricscommunity.com\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2023-08-26T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:22:25","slug":"5048-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/5048\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment Abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-5\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2359287138?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;fromopenview=true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/political-map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/political-map.png 600w, https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/political-map-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/openview\/241cdd0ff7f08525e31e2f9e1cdcddf6\/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=226512\" target=\"_blank\">Treatment adherence and abandonment in acute myeloid leukemia in pediatric patients at a low-resource cancer center in India<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the causes for lower cure rates in acute childhood leukemia in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) compared to high-income countries is abandonment from treatment. The International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) defines abandonment as failure to begin treatment or an absence of 4 weeks during treatment. At the pediatric ward at a low-resource cancer center in India, the abandonment rate from treatment of childhood AML was 20%, which is in concordance from other studies conducted in India and other LMIC, stating that abandonment is a problem and hindrance when treating with a curative intent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"tags-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/aml\/\" rel=\"tag\">AML<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/leukemia\/\" rel=\"tag\">leukemia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/treatment-abandonment\/\" rel=\"tag\">treatment abandonment<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treatment adherence and abandonment in acute myeloid leukemia in pediatric patients at a low-resource cancer center in India One of the causes for lower cure rates in acute childhood leukemia in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) compared to high-income countries is abandonment from treatment. The International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) defines abandonment as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[272,372],"tags":[504,1359,2057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}