Cancer Survival in Children

The World Health Organisation's Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer has targeted a huge increase from 30% to 60% in five-year survival for all cancers in children combined, by 2030.

This target is welcome, but it is particularly ambitious, because about 80% of the world's children live in low-income or middle-income countries, where access to appropriate diagnostic and treatment modalities at affordable cost may be limited or absent.

We are looking for studies that can shed light on this problem. Are new insights on the diagnosis or treatment of childhood cancer available? Is progress toward the GICC target being made? What are the obstacles to improved access to timely diagnosis and optimal treatment at affordable cost?

Submissions may be studies from national or regional population-based cancer registries, clinical series from hospitals (not case studies), reviews of the literature, or proposals for strategies designed to reduce the burden of cancer in children.

We will welcome studies focused on any type of childhood malignancy.

Keywords: cancer, survival, Population-based, cancer registry, Childhood cancer, Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer

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