The Great Work of Your Life Interview with Kristin Schroeder, MD
Kristin Schroeder, MD
Let’s give any child diagnosed with cancer the same chance of cure regardless of where they live—because, it turns out, the wide access gap that currently exists can be closed.
While pediatric cancer has a survival rate of nearly 85% in many developed countries, cancer care is essentially non-existent in many hospitals across low-income countries. For nearly a decade, Kristin Schroeder, M.D., MPH, and iCCARE, https://www.i-ccare.org, which Dr. Schroeder co-founded, have worked to deliver and improve cancer care with curative therapies, as well as supportive and palliative care at Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Through Dr. Schroeder’s efforts, the survival rate for her patients has risen to 50% in the eight years she has spent in western Tanzania.
Dr. Schroeder is an associate professor of pediatrics, associate research professor of global health and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute at Duke University School of Medicine.
Transcript of the interview
While pediatric cancer has a survival rate of nearly 85% in many developed countries, cancer care is essentially non-existent in many hospitals across low-income countries. For nearly a decade, Kristin Schroeder, M.D., MPH, and iCCARE, https://www.i-ccare.org, which Dr. Schroeder co-founded, have worked to deliver and improve cancer care with curative therapies, as well as supportive and palliative care at Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Through Dr. Schroeder’s efforts, the survival rate for her patients has risen to 50% in the eight years she has spent in western Tanzania.
Dr. Schroeder is an associate professor of pediatrics, associate research professor of global health and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute at Duke University School of Medicine.
Transcript of the interview
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