Every year, more than 900,000 people in the world are daignosed with blood cancer, an umbrella term for a large group of cancers including leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma and their subtypes. In India, it is the seventh most common cancer with more than 10,000 cases of blood cancer being reported in children.
This Blood Cancer Awareness Month, join our panel of experts as they talk about the need for prevention and early detection of blood cancer, elucidate determinants of disparities in blood cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and identify interventions for blood cancer treatment in India and the world.
PANELISTS:
Rajshekhar Chakraborty
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Professor of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (W.I.A), Chennai
Justine Kahn
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
CHAIRPERSON:
Ravina Aggarwal
Director, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai