Childhood cancer: Preventing children from dying unnecessarily

08/31/22 • 19 min

Around 400 000 children and adolescents develop cancer each year. But while survival rates for children in high-income countries is about 80%, in low-income settings it is under 30%.

This significant disparity is not an unsolvable problem. There is a path forward so that children everywhere do not die of cancer.

Rick Shadyac speaks to Cary Adams in this episode of Let's Talk Cancer about the underlying challenges with childhood cancer and the actions being taken to overcome them.

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Around 400 000 children and adolescents develop cancer each year. But while survival rates for children in high-income countries is about 80%, in low-income settings it is under 30%.

This significant disparity is not an unsolvable problem. There is a path forward so that children everywhere do not die of cancer.

Rick Shadyac speaks to Cary Adams in this episode of Let's Talk Cancer about the underlying challenges with childhood cancer and the actions being taken to overcome them.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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