Shared care for children with cancer in India through social and healthcare partnerships during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID pandemic posed a challenge for the tertiary centers to continue treatment. Some tertiary centers were designated as COVID-only hospitals, making it difficult for existing childhood cancer patients to continue their treatment at those centres. The need for shared care in childhood cancer was perceived by Cankids and its partnering childhood cancer-treating centers in North and East India.

B cell suppression in newborn following treatment of pregnant diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patient with rituximab containing regimen.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma associated with pregnancy is rare. Rituximab based chemotherapy is now considered the standard of care and considered safe for the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) during pregnancy but little is known about its safety profile on the fetus. A 32 y primigravida was diagnosed as DLBCL at 20 wk of gestation.