Study identifies barriers to successful treatment of children with sarcoma in low-income countries

Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 15:20 in Health & Medicine

Raising the survival rate of children with sarcoma in low-income countries will require steps to diagnose the disease sooner, train cancer pathologists, expand radiation therapy services, create multi-speciality teams to review each case, and other actions, according to an international study led by Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Centre researchers. The findings will be presented at the 42nd Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) in Boston on Friday, Oct. 22...

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