{"id":371,"date":"2017-07-14T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/?p=371"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:17:32","slug":"marty-walshs-childhood-cancer-curable-here-not-so-easy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/2017\/07\/14\/marty-walshs-childhood-cancer-curable-here-not-so-easy-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty Walsh\u2019s Childhood Cancer: Curable Here, Not So Easy In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>by Elizabeth Mehren<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pghs\/files\/2017\/07\/burkitt_s-lyphoma.png\" alt=\"pamoja-post 4\" width=\"292\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-372\" \/><br \/>\nJust about everyone in town knows by now that Marty Walsh is the son of Irish immigrants, a former labor organizer, a recovering alcoholic and a man who is happily unmarried to \u201cthe love of my life.\u201d But it\u2019s possible that few outside a rather eccentric quartet of Boston University researchers took note of one particular item in the biography of Boston\u2019s new mayor. Walsh is a survivor of Burkitt\u2019s Lymphoma, a virulent variety of pediatric cancer known to be fastest-growing human tumor. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Burkitt\u2019s is the most widespread type of childhood cancer. Burkitt\u2019s is on the rise in Kenya and Uganda and diagnosis is challenging. Chronic malaria is closely linked to Burkitt\u2019s and is prevalent in Kenya\u2019s malaria-prone lake regions. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, students were able to travel to Kenya and create stories of foreign aid from the point of view of the recipients. One story that one of our Kenyan students reported on was about one of the few hospitals in Kenya that treats Burkitt\u2019s. Walsh demonstrates chemotherapy can reverse Burkitt\u2019s Lymphoma, but only if the disease is diagnosed early, and treatment is aggressive.<\/p>\n<h4>Related Link:<\/4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commonhealth.wbur.org\/2013\/11\/marty-walshs-childhood-cancer-curable-here-not-so-easy-in-africa\">http:\/\/commonhealth.wbur.org\/2013\/11\/marty-walshs-childhood-cancer-curable-here-not-so-easy-in-africa<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Elizabeth Mehren Just about everyone in town knows by now that Marty Walsh is the son of Irish immigrants, a former labor organizer, a recovering alcoholic and a man who is happily unmarried to \u201cthe love of my life.\u201d But it\u2019s possible that few outside a rather eccentric quartet of Boston University researchers took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}