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Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center to partner with Egypt Cancer Network and Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt

Creating Egypt-based fellowship training program for physicians from Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa Region

BOSTON – Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center is announcing a partnership with the Egypt Cancer Network and Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt in an effort to improve childhood cancer survival rates and outcomes within Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa. The organizations are collaborating to create an Egypt-based fellowship training program in pediatric oncology for physicians in those regions.

“Since beginning a twinning program between the Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center and the Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt in 2006, we have seen significant improvement in the outcome of pediatric cancer patients in Egypt,” said Mark Kieran, MD, PhD, director of medical neuro-oncology at Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center and member of the medical advisory board for the Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357’s pediatric oncology fellowship program. “However, there is still a shortage of expertise and resources needed to treat children with cancer in this region.”

“The fellowship is designed to improve the childhood cancer survival rates and outcomes within Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa,” said Kieran. “This collaboration will allow the exchange of information, knowledge and experience for both doctors from the region and from the United States, providing the opportunity for the improvement of treatment and care practices.”

The collaboration will provide a formal fellowship framework for pediatric oncology training and mentoring for Egyptian, African and Middle Eastern pediatricians in line with international standards and will create a pool of qualified pediatric oncologists who can ensure continued progress in improving outcomes for children with cancer in this region.

As part of the fellowship, between 2 and 6 pediatric physicians from the Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt will travel to Boston to work with specialists at Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC).  In addition, DF/CHCC physicians will rotate at the Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt to train oncologists there in the latest treatments and care techniques.

About the Dana-Farber / Children’s Hospital Cancer Center

Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) combines the strengths of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a world-class cancer institute, and Boston Children’s Hospital, an internationally known pediatric hospital. For over 60 years, these two Harvard Medical School affiliates have provided comprehensive care for children and adolescents with cancer. Committed to conducting research to better understand and treat childhood cancers, DF/CHCC is the Pediatric Oncology Experimental Therapeutics Investigator Consortium’s (POETIC) only Phase I Clinical Trial site in New England, and is home to one of the world’s most sophisticated and accomplished Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation centers. DF/CHCC also offers comprehensive transitional and long-term survivorship programs to childhood cancer survivors of all ages.

 

Every year Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 hosts hundreds of visitors.

Giulia, an Italian tourist, was simply passing by when the brilliance of the hospital’s architecture and gardens captured her attention. Her blog features pictures and descriptions of what was clearly a moving experience for her, click here.

It’s impossible to put into words what one feels when one tours the hospital and meets the patients. During a recent visit by Bob Bradley, Egypt’s National Soccer Coach, he refers to the “spirit inside this hospital.”

During this festive time of the year, we often speak of the “Holiday Spirit.” It’s a festive spirit, full of life, light, hope and humility. The same words we hear time and time again to describe Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, 57357.

“I can’t find the appropriate words to explain what my wife and I felt after we finished touring the hospital.  I feel very humble and proud at the same time.”

— Mohamed Fakhry, Board Member, MIDO Intl S.A.E

“What I have learned about working with the people in Cairo is total humility. That we think that we are somehow at the pinnacle of the system; yet people in Egypt get up and do things with fewer resources and fewer promises, and fewer guarantees, day after day after day.”

— Dr. Leslie Lehman, Director of the Stem Cell Transplant Program,
Harvard’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Egypt Cancer Network welcomes you to visit the hospital and meet the lives you are helping to save. For those of you stateside this holiday season, take a virtual tour through the eyes and stories of others who have been touched by the spirit of CCHE, click here.

Sparkling stars hold our gaze, they both inspire us and illuminate a path for us to follow. Last month, a number of stars descended on Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357. All dedicated their time, financial and intellectual resources as well as enthusiasm, ideas and ongoing support to help the true Rock Stars, the patients at Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357.

  • Kuwaiti Ambassador Rashid Al Hammad and Media figure Aisha Al Yahie
  • World renowned Harvard pediatric physician specialists from Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston
  • The Spouse of the Prime Minister of First Turkey, Mrs. Emine Erdo?an, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Ambassador
  • Women leaders representing the Asian Embassies in Egypt (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Manila, Philippines, Brunei) led by the Ambassador of Thailand’s wife, Mrs. Jittima Manityhul.
  • Bob Bradley, manager of the Egypt national football team.
  • Zamalek Soccer Team

Such stardom brings awareness of the good work being done at Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357. The Hospital has also become a source of inspiration for authors and filmmakers as it reaches the hearts and minds of the Egyptian people.

  • The recent Egyptian movie “Tek Tek Boom” by Mohammed Saad evokes Hospital 57357, depicting true stories about the hospital’s raid during the Revolution. It shares stories of how, in the absence of police, the local citizens banded together to protect the children, equipment and buildings. The hospital now stands as a reminder of the courage and magnanimity of Egyptians as the neighborhood stood firm next to the hospital staff in strength and unity.
  • In the Egyptian TV series “Khatem Soliman”, a father whose daughter is recently diagnosed with cancer expresses hope that will be admitted to one of the Private “health insurance” hospitals, but his friend is quick to advise him to go immediately to Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357.
  • In the Egyptian TV series “Nour Mariam” someone asks the heroine what will she do with the huge money that she inherited. She responds saying that she wishes to build a great hospital like the CCHE 57357.
  • In the Egyptian movie “Shahir, Baheer, and Samir ” when Miss Egypt is asked what she will do with the prize money, she answers that she will give it all to Hospital 57357.