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Cancer survivors: a new generation rises in childhood disease
A Knight-Ridder report notes by decade end one in 1000 twenty-year-olds may be cancer survivors. Dr. Giulio D Angleo at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia cites progress in acute lymphocytic leukemia and Wilms tumor with rising five year survival. but data bias toward white children, with black survivor rates largely undetermined. The piece reports aggressive treatment but lifelong family impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giulio D’angelo
Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia
American Cancer Society
Wilms
National Cancer Institute
The
Cancer Society
Lynn Ries