Children account for 15 per cent of 1400 new cases of cancer turning up annually at JIPMER here, the centrally sponsored health institute said.
Seventy per cent of them were haematological malignancies (acute leukemia, lymphoma and LCH) and rest were cases of solid tumours (bone and soft issue sarcomas, neuroblastoma, Wilm`s tumour and retinoblastoma), it said.JIPMER started in January 2013 bone marrow transplant and so far 61 transplants had been performed for various indications including eleven paediatric cases.Director of JIPMER S C Parija today distributed gifts to the children as part of celebration of the National Childhood Cancer Awareness programme, organised by JIPMER in association with NGOs, including Jiv Daya foundation, CANKIDS and Rotary Club of Beach town Puducherry.(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Seventy per cent of them were haematological malignancies (acute leukemia, lymphoma and LCH) and rest were cases of solid tumours (bone and soft issue sarcomas, neuroblastoma, Wilm`s tumour and retinoblastoma), it said.JIPMER started in January 2013 bone marrow transplant and so far 61 transplants had been performed for various indications including eleven paediatric cases.Director of JIPMER S C Parija today distributed gifts to the children as part of celebration of the National Childhood Cancer Awareness programme, organised by JIPMER in association with NGOs, including Jiv Daya foundation, CANKIDS and Rotary Club of Beach town Puducherry.(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)