Childhood cancers in Europe: Progress has been made, but much remains to be done

Sunday, September 27, 2015 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

Each year in Europe, 6,000 young people die from cancer, and two-thirds of those who survive suffer from treatment-related side effects. Although there has been considerable progress in the treatment of childhood cancers over the past few decades, and cancer in childhood is rare, these are major problems that need to be overcome, says a report from SIOPE, the European Society for Paediatric Oncology.

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