Childhood cancer
Childhood Cancer: Why Only 1 in 5 Indian Children Survives CancerChildhood Cancer Day: Five per cent of patients suffering from different types of cancer are below the age of 18 years. Most cases lead to death because of poor diagnosis.
- Raising Awareness About Childhood Cancer
In India, more than 30,000 children are diagnosed with childhood cancer every year. Cancer kills as many as 260 children per week on an average in the country.
- Early Childhood Cancer Deaths 4 Times More Common Than Estimated
About 1.5 percent of the child patients in the SEER database, happened to die within a month of cancer diagnosis, often under the age of one.
- Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Health Problems With Newer Treatments
Despite advances that have made treatments safer and more effective, childhood cancer survivors don't appear to have experienced gains in long-term health outcomes, a new study suggests.
- Many Children with Cancer Are Born at Risk: Study Finds
Gene sequencing of more than 1,000 children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer found that as many as 8.5 percent were born with genes that increase their risk of developing cancer.
- New Drugs for Hard-to-Treat Childhood Cancers
Scientists have developed a whole new class of drugs that, for the first time, targets the structure of the cancer cell, paving way for new treatments to tackle the disease.Researchers at the University of New ...
