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Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Paediatrics Kalafong
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
This has been a very busy year for Paediatric Oncology in that we have moved from Kalafong Hospital and established a new service at Steve Biko Academic Hospital. I think our most important achievement this year has been to establish a facility in which the first allogenic stem transplant has been performed in a child in the public sector. We have one MSc protocol provisionally approved by the research ethics committee, we have conducted two student audit projects in the ward and we also conducted an audit exploring the delay in referral of some of our local referring clinics this was been presented at annual SIOP meeting held in Boston USA. Dr Omar and I have both had review articles in published CME journal this year.
We are looking forward to next year and have already started working on some interesting research projects.
Research projects and outputs:
A comparison of the efficacy and cost of intravenous and oral formulations of ondansetron against chemotherapy-induced nausea MSc Pharmacology Researcher: Gretta Cornelia M’bitsi Ibouily
Audit of nausea and vomiting in children receiving chemotherapy at the SBAH Paediatric Oncology Unit. Researcher: Hanneke van der Walt
Audit of Pain Management at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital Paediatric Oncology Ward: Researcher: Judy Ings
The role of primary care in the early detection of childhood cancer. can we do more? Researchers: Fareed Omar, Poppy Ncube, Cecilia Matome, David Reynders
Contact person: Dr D Reynders.
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