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Nearly half of children with cancer untreated, study finds

A girl playing with a red balloon during a march to commemorate the International Day of the Child with Cancer, celebrated on February 15. A research group reports that nearly one in two children with cancer are never diagnosed and may die untreated. – EPA pic, February 27, 2019.

SOME 45% of children with cancer are left undiagnosed and untreated, according to an innovative study of the disease’s global footprint among under-15s, published today. 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.

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