This Scary Childhood Condition Is Under-Reported -- Here's What You Should Know

Outcomes from childhood cancer have greatly improved in the U.S. over the past few decades -- in fact, five-year survival rates are over 80 percent. But unfortunately, there are many more early deaths than we previously thought. Research conducted between the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of Colorado has found that early deaths from some pediatric cancers are up to four times as common as clinical trial reports have led us to believe. Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the new study used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database and found 36,337 cases of...

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