One child in 100 adults will develop cancer. Childhood cancers are rare and therefore receive too little attention. “While the survival rate among adults increased by 8 percent, little progress has been made for children,” says pediatric oncologist Bram De Wilde (UZ Ghent). What’s more: since 2007, 200 new cancer drugs have been approved for adults, but only… 16 for children.
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Rare tumor affects Suzan (14): “Research into childhood cancer is not very innovative”
