An interview with Professor Tim Eden, President of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology

Q. Why do you feel this particular cause is so important?
A. Through my role in the International Society of Paediatric Oncology since the 1970s, I recognised the needs in other countries and have attempted to share my own knowledge and experience with them. As a pediatrician, it is difficult to see children suffering with no supportive and palliative care available – let alone treatment which might be quite easily capable of curing them. To develop simple strategies to help young children - and support medical and nursing colleagues worldwide to do that – seems to be a very logical and appropriate cause. Indeed not to help would seem to be totally wrong.