childhood cancer
The Youngest Casualties of Cancer
And while the five-year survival rate has improved in recent decades — to 80 percent, up from less than half 40 years ago — the number of cases is rising, too; it now stands at 10,000, up from 8,000 in 1975.
More than half of childhood cancers are caused by leukemia or tumors of the central nervous system. They are generally treated the same way as adult cancers, with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. But other issues in childhood cancer are quite different from those faced by adults.
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By Karen Barrow, New York Times MAy 23, 2011
International Childhood Cancer Day 2011
Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland - February 15, 2011 - Today, on International Childhood Cancer Day, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and Sanofi Espoir Foundation announced that 23 ongoing projects from 18 low- and middle-income countries have been awarded renewed support of up to € 50,000 each to improving cancer care for children through the My Child Matters initiative. On this occasion, both partners have jointly published a successful review of the six- year programme.
International Childhood Cancer Day
Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland - February 15, 2011 - Today, on International Childhood Cancer Day, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and Sanofi Espoir Foundation announced that 23 ongoing projects from 18 low- and middle-income countries have been awarded renewed support of up to € 50,000 each to improving cancer care for children through the My Child Matters initiative. On this occasion, both partners have jointly published a successful review of the six- year programme.
CML Advocates Network and International CML Foundation join forces on Paediatric CML on International Childhood Cancer Day
and the International CML Foundation join forces to support young patients affected by that rare form of leukaemia, as well as physicians and researchers.
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International CML Foundation (iCMLf)
8 in 10 now survive childhood cancer in the UK
Forty years ago the chances of surviving conditions including leukaemia, brain cancer and lymphoma were poor, and a diagnosis was considered little better than a death sentence among parents and many doctors.
Just over a quarter (28 per cent) survived to see adulthood.
But thanks to advances in treatments including chemotherapy and radiotherapy the statistics have swung the other way.
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By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent UK Telegraph , November 12, 2010.
Future risks for child cancer survivors even times higher than general population
And they are at nearly five times the risk of being affected by a second cancer.
But the first study of Australian childhood cancer survivors has shown they face a different set of risks compared with cancer survivors in the US and Europe, with survivors here more likely to develop bone and thyroid cancers, and melanomas.
The authors of the research, published in the Medical Journal of Australia yesterday, said the results showed childhood cancer survivors needed to keep a close watch on their health.
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Adam Cresswell From: The Australian September 06, 2010.
Robot joins war on child cancer: robotic drug-screening technology
It was a taboo that largely has been removed as new, effective treatments have ended the idea that the disease is an automatic death sentence.
In 1982, just 41 per cent of men and 53 per cent of women could expect to be alive five years after a cancer diagnosis, figures that by 2004 had risen to 58 per cent and 64 per cent respectively.
But there's one area where success is not so impressive, one where the suffering is particularly poignant: children's cancer.
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Adam Creswell, Health editor From: The Australian August 28, 2010.
Early diagnosis and follow-up of childhood cancer in East Bolivia
Bolivia is considered the poorest country in South America. 63% of the population are below the threshold of poverty and 37% live under conditions of extreme poverty. Poverty affects 50% of the inhabitants of the big urban centres, 65% of the inhabitants of cities stockings and 90% of the rural population (World Bank, 2000). The principal causes of death in childhood continue to be pneumonia and diarrhea. Therefore, there is no official covering for the infantile cancer.
Extending, reorganizing and training health professionals in the pediatric hematology-oncology unit at the mother and child centre of the Chantal Biya Foundation
Before 1990, the disease was considered a curse by the society. Progressively, mentality changes and more and more cases of childhood cancers are being diagnosed. As one of the reference centers for maternity and infant health in Cameroon and the region, the Mother and Child of the Center in Yaoundé registers 40 cases of childhood cancer per year.
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Yaoundé
A bridge for life
In Paraguay, a careful analysis of the situation demonstrates that mortalitiy in children are caused by two reasons: Infections due to the lack of suitable building and sanitary structures to welcome children and the abandonment of care resulting from the family’s financial situation and the distance travelled by the child. The MCM funds are designed to address these issues in order to raise the quality of treatment and life of childhood patients.
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San Lorenzo
