The magnitude and perceived reasons for childhood cancer treatment abandonment in Ethiopia: from health care providers' perspective

• Main Authors: Mizan Kiros Mirutse (Author), Mieraf Taddesse Tolla (Author), Solomon Tessema Memirie (Author), Michael Tekle Palm (Author), Daniel Hailu (Author), Kunuz Abdella Abdi (Author), Ermias Dessie Buli (Author), Ole F. Norheim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Treatment abandonment is one of major reasons for childhood cancer treatment failure and low survival rate in low- and middle-income countries. Ethiopia plans to reduce abandonment rate by 60% (2019-2023), but baseline data and information about the contextual risk factors that i...