Infection Prevention and Control Measures at the Children Hospital Lahore: A My Child Matters Collaborative Project.

Purpose: Infection prevention among children with cancer is a major challenge at Children Hospital Lahore (CHL), a public health care facility in Pakistan with 1,000 new pediatric cancer admissions annually. The objective has been to reduce infections through collaboration between CHL and the St Jude Children's Hospital Global Infectious Disease program via a grant by the Sanofi Espoir foundation through the My Child Matters program. The aim of the current study was to describe the effect of the collaborative improvement strategy on existing infection prevention and control (IPC) standards at CHL.

Pediatric Malignant Mediastinal Masses.

Objective: To describe the clinical spectrum and outcome-associated variables of pediatric malignant mediastinal masses in a resource-limited setting.

Study Design: Descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, The Children's Hospital, Lahore, from October 2016 to November 2017.

Familial Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) is a lymphoid tumour that represents about 1% of all neoplasms occurring worldwide. HLis the most treatable of childhood malignancies. The etiology of HLis unknown.