Survival Rate for Children with Cancer Has Increased Significantly
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ROTTERDAM/UTRECHT (ANP) - The survival rates of children with cancer have improved further this century. Of the children diagnosed with cancer between 2010 and 2014, 83.2 percent were still alive ten years later, report the Princess Máxima Center, KiKa, and the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Centre. The organisation...
Encouraging news for children diagnosed with cancer. The chance that they will still be alive ten years later is now significantly higher than at the beginning of this century.
More and more children are surviving cancer. This is evident from data from the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht and the Children Cancer-Free Foundation (KiKa). The progress is primarily due to better scientific research.
Five out of six children who get cancer are still alive ten years later. The survival rate has improved over the course of a decade: previously it was just over three out of four. Nevertheless, for some types of childhood cancer, there is still no cure.
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