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Almost half of children with cancer are going undiagnosed and untreated, according to a new global study. The research suggests that the situation depends on location: while only 3% of childhood cancer cases in western Europe and north America are thought to have been missed in 2015, the propo...
In a deal similar to the one that turned the tide against AIDS, manufacturers and charities will make chemotherapy drugs available in six poor countries at steep discounts. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Continue Reading...
Yanin Chávarri Guerra, MD, MSc, of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, in Mexico, was the principal investigator of a study funded by a 2015 International Innovation Grant. Mexican women with breast cancer present with more advanced stages of the disease t...
New IARC data in The Lancet on pediatric cancers http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(17)30186-9/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr&utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=c4eaacd4e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062...
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