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The conflict has had a major destructive impact on the health system, which has incurred targeting with air raids, ground invasion, vandalization, looting of assets and supplies, and killing of doctors, nurses, and other health personnel. Khartoum Oncology Hospital, Sudan's main cancer hub for treatment, diagnostics, and research has become nonfunctional as a result of the conflict. The National Cancer Institute in Wad Medani, the second largest hub, faced a similar fate as the conflict spread to Al-Gezira State. Patients with cancer have been displaced multiple times in Sudan with grave consequences on the continuity of care, worsening of their disease outcomes and palpable negative impacts on children. The oncology workforce in Sudan have themselves been displaced yet are working hard to provide services and care for patients under impossible circumstances. Sudan's doctors in diaspora have rallied to provide support but they face multiple obstacles. As the conflict continues to spread, we call upon the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, St Jude Hospital, and all relevant partners to implement an immediate evacuation operation with urgent air lifts of the affected children to continue their cancer care in neighboring countries as was done in Ukraine and Gaza.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1200\/go.24.00144","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,3]],"date-time":"2024-07-03T15:59:26Z","timestamp":1720022366000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1200\/crossmark","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Collapse of Cancer Care Under the Current Conflict in Sudan"],"prefix":"10.1200","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1617-3478","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Iman","family":"Ahmed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, Greater Toronto Area, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0595-5186","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Moawia M.A.","family":"Elhassan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Cancer Institute (NCI), University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-3601-5297","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Khatir","family":"Elnour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Khartoum Oncology Hospital (KOH), Khartoum, Sudan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6435-1825","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Richard","family":"Sullivan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Cancer Policy, Global Oncology Group, Centre for Cancer, Society & Public Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3963-5815","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Nazik","family":"Hammad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Haematology and Oncology, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"233","reference":[{"key":"b1","volume-title":"Sudan Humanitarian Update","author":"United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)"},{"key":"b2","volume-title":"International Organization for Migration DTM Sudan\u2019s Internally Displaced Persons 2023 Estimates"},{"key":"b6","first-page":"128","volume":"17","author":"Alrawa Salma S","year":"2023","journal-title":"Ecancermedicalscience"},{"key":"b7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-981-16-7945-2_16"},{"key":"b8","volume-title":"Map of Members\u2014Khartoum Oncology Specialized Center","author":"Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)"},{"key":"b9","unstructured":"Dabanga Sudan: Health Minister to WHO: Sudan faces poverty, disease, ongoing conflicts. 2023, Cairo. https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/health-minister-to-who-sudan-faces-poverty-disease-ongoing-conflicts"},{"key":"b12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.54536\/jir.v2i1.2408"},{"key":"b13","volume-title":"Cancer Control","author":"Hammad N","year":"2023"},{"key":"b17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(23)02515-1"},{"key":"b18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S2352-3026(22)00259-9"}],"container-title":["JCO Global Oncology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/ascopubs.org\/doi\/pdfdirect\/10.1200\/GO.24.00144","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,3]],"date-time":"2024-07-03T15:59:33Z","timestamp":1720022373000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/ascopubs.org\/doi\/10.1200\/GO.24.00144"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2024,7]]},"references-count":10,"journal-issue":{"issue":"10","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,7]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1200\/GO.24.00144"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1200\/go.24.00144","relation":{},"ISSN":["2687-8941"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2687-8941","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2024,7]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2024-04-01","order":0,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2024-05-15","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2024-07-03","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}],"article-number":"e2400144"}}