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Article: Hospitals identify ways to improve treatment of childhood leukemia in Honduras.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- September 23, 2003
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2003 SEP 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Hospital Escuela (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) have identified ways to improve treatments and cure rates for Honduran children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Many children in Honduras receiving the most advanced treatment for ALL, the most common type of childhood cancer, still die because their families must abandon therapy or because the children succumb to infections.
ALL cure rates in some countries with limited resources are less than 35%, while the cure rates in developed countries have reached 80%.
"This 'survival gap' shows the ...