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A peek behind the paper – Paul George and Joyce Kambugu on multidisciplinary pediatric tumor boards

Written by Francesca Lake, Future Science Group

Tumor board meetings, which are standard of care for cancer management and well-studied in high income settings, have not been appropriately evaluated in low-income settings. In this interview Paul George (Baylor College of Medicine, TX, USA) and Joyce Kambugu (Uganda Cancer Institute), describe their recently published article, which describes their review of a weekly pediatric tumor board meeting in Uganda.  Please tell us about yourself, and what sparked your interest in the field Paul George: I am a resident in Pediatrics/Global Child Health. As part of my residency, I had the opportunity to spend a clinical year in Kampala, Uganda,...

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