How To Bring Cancer Care To The World's Poorest Children
For children in developing countries, cancer care is largely out of reach. But new research is challenging assumptions that it's too costly and complicated.
It's one of the great achievements of oncology: with advances in treatment, cure rates for children with cancer in North America now exceed 80%, up from 10% in the 1960s.
Yet for kids across the developing world, the fruits of that progress remain largely out of reach. In low- and middle-income countries, restrictive access to affordable treatment, a shortage of cancer specialists and late diagnosis dooms more than 80% of pediatric patients to die of the same illnesses.
That's one measure of what's known as the ""— the vast and growing gap in access to quality cancer care between
