Profile of Pediatric Solid Tumor Care and Multidisciplinary
Tumor Boards in Southeast Asia
Mohd Yusran Othman1,2, Sally
Blair3,4, Shireen A Nah5, Hany
Ariffin6, Chatchawin Assanasen3,7,
Shui Yen Soh8, Anette S Jacobsen1,9,
Catherine Lam10, Amos HP Loh1,9 *
1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, KK Women’s and
Children’s Hospital, Singapore
2 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hospital Tunku
Azizah (Women and Children Hospital), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3 Vietnam Pediatric Hematology Oncology (PHO)
Programme, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
4 Division of Pediatric Haematology and Oncology,
Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
5 Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of
Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia
6 Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Malaya, Malaysia
7 SEAPHO, Division of Hematology/Oncology Department
of Pediatrics, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
8 Haematology/Oncology Service, Department of
Pediatric Subspecialties, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
9 SingHealth-Duke NUS Global Health Institute, Duke
NUS Medical School, Singapore
10 St Jude Global, St Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
*Correspondence: Dr Amos Loh, Department of Pediatric Surgery, KK
Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 299899,
Singapore. Tel: +65-63948014, Email:
amos.loh.h.p@singhealth.com.sg
Text word count: 2830;
Abstract word count: 250;
Brief running title: Pediatric solid tumor boards in Southeast Asia
Key words: Pediatric solid tumors, multidisciplinary tumor board,
Southeast Asia, Pediatric Oncology in Developing Countries (PODC)
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