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Nearly half of children with cancer untreated: study

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Worldwide, there are some 400,000 news cases of childhood cancer each year.

Worldwide, there are some 400,000 news cases of childhood cancer each year, but barely half are logged in national health registries, researchers reported in The Lancet Oncology, a medical journal.

Sixty percent of countries do not even have cancer registries, and of those that do many only cover a fraction of the population. Researchers took into account general levels of access to primary care and referrals to specialised care.

 

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