A Sunnier Forecast But Still Some
Clouds: Trends in Pediatric Cancer Care in Florida from 1981-2020.
Peter H Shaw MD,1 Jonathan L Metts
MD,1 Ernest K Amankwah PhD,2 Don E
Eslin MD,3 Scott M Bradfield MD,4William B Slayton MD,5 Brian Hays,6Brian Calkins,7 Craig A MacArthur MD,
PhD,8 Juan F Rico MD,9 Julio C
Barredo MD,10 Amy A Smith MD,11Iftikhar Hanif MD,12 Hector Rodriguez-Cortes
MD,13 Ramamoorthy Nagasubramanian
MD,14 Jeffrey P Krischer PhD.15
Affiliations : 1Cancer and Blood Disorders
Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL,2Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 3St. Joseph’s
Children’s Hospital, Tampa, FL, 4Nemour’s Children’s
Health, Jacksonville, FL, 5 Division of
Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida
College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL. 6Health
Informatics Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL,7FAPTP-Florida Pediatric NCORP, Tampa, FL,8Division of Hematology/Oncology, Golisano Children’s
Hospital of Southwest Florida, Lee Health System, Ft. Myers, FL,9Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of
Pediatrics, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine,
Tampa, FL, 10Department of Pediatrics, Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine, Miami, FL,11Arnold
Palmer Hospital Haley Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders,
Orlando, FL, 12Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Joe
DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood,
FL,13Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Broward Health
Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL,14Division of
Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Nemours Children’s
Health, Orlando, FL, 15Departments of Pediatrics and
Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, Morsani College of
Medicine, Tampa, FL.
Corresponding Author :
Peter H. Shaw, MD
Cancer and Blood Disorders Institute
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
Hematology/Oncology
601 5th St South
Ste 302
St. Petersburg, FL
(727)767-4176
pshaw7@jhmi.edu
Word count : Abstract – 249 words; Main Text – 2,219 words
Figures : 6
Running Title : Trends in pediatric cancer care in Florida
Keywords : pediatric cancer, cancer incidence, clinical trial
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