An overview of disparities in childhood cancer: Report on the Inaugural Symposium
      on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities, Houston, Texas, 2016

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The Inaugural Symposium on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities was held in Houston, Texas, on November 2, 2016. The symposium was attended by 109 scientists and clinicians from diverse disciplinary back-grounds with interests in pediatric cancer disparities and focused on reviewing our current knowledge of disparities in cancer risk and out-comes for select childhood cancers. Following a full day of topical sessions, everyone participated in a brainstorming session to develop a working strategy for the continued expansion of research in this area. This meeting was designed to serve as a springboard for examination of childhood cancer disparities from a more unified and systematic approach and to enhance awareness of this area of need.

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Journal ID (nlm-journal-id): 8700164

Journal ID (pubmed-jr-id): 1784

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Pediatr Hematol Oncol

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Pediatr Hematol Oncol

Title: Pediatric hematology and oncology

ISSN (Print): 0888-0018

ISSN (Electronic): 1521-0669

Publication date Nihms-submitted: 25 July 2019

Publication date (Electronic): 08 May 2018

Publication date (Print): March 2018

Publication date PMC-release: 07 August 2019

Volume: 35

Issue: 2

Pages: 95-110

Affiliations

[a ]Section of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

[b ]Cancer and Hematology Centers, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

[c ]Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

[d ]Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

[e ]Department of Preventative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

[f ]Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

[g ]Department of Pediatrics and Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

[h ]Programa de Hematologia-Oncologia Pediátrico, Instituto Nacional de Cáncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

[i ]Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

[j ]Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

[k ]Department of Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

[l ]Departments of Epidemiology and Pediatrics (Oncology), Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

[m ]Department of Pediatrics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

[n ]Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

[o ]Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

[p ]Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA

[q ]Department of Pediatric Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

[r ]Departments of Surgical Oncology and Pediatrics Patient Care, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

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These authors contributed equally to this manuscript.

CONTACT Michael Scheurer scheurer@ 123456bcm.edu Section of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

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Accession ID: PMC6685736 Pmcid ID: PMC6685736 Pmc-uid ID: 6685736 Manuscript ID: nihpa1033785

DOI: 10.1080/08880018.2018.1464088

PMC ID: 6685736

PubMed ID: 29737912

SO-VID: e80c0c8d-d88f-4303-a959-b0545738eb52

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