Beryl Thyer Memorial Africa Trust (BTMAT)

Looking back over the last 9 years the most enjoyable experiences of my biannual trips to Cameroon have been outreach visits into the bush to find children whom we have treated for cancer. We go armed with a photo of the child, a village name and sometimes the mobile phone…

We now have treatment programmes at the 3 Baptist hospitals of Western Cameroon for four child cancers: Burkitt’s lymphoma, the most common cancer and Wilms tumour (protocols designed by Prof P.Hesseling) and also more recently retinoblastoma and Kaposi sarcoma. BTMAT supplies the drugs and pays the in-patient treatment costs of…

Prof Peter Hesseling and Dr Paul Wharin make biannual visits to the three Baptist hospitals to encourage our Cameroonian colleagues who provide continuing care for children with cancer and to collate results of the cancer treatment protocols designed by Prof Hesseling. We hold frequent workshops in which teams from the…

Greetings to all our supporters everywhere! Yesterday evening I was reading a topic in SIOP News Issue no 41, entitled “Paediatric oncology in Developing Countries: How can the SIOP and ASPHO membership collaborate?” Some of the points mentioned included career opportunities, funding, establishing programmes, feasibility of treatment, and demonstrating ‘twinning’…

Thank you all for your hospitality, enthusiasm and support which we experienced during our recent visit. We carefully reviewed treatments, supportive care, our POND cancer registry, drug supplies, the parent support programme and palliative care at each hospital. Progress and problems that were identified, were discussed with each team. We…