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You know nothing other than it is either success or failure Parents of kids with cancer plead for research as kids fight rare cancers with treatments intended for adults

‘You know nothing other than it is either success or failure.’ Parents of kids with cancer plead for research as kids fight rare cancers with treatments intended for adults. Alison Bowen, Chicago Tribune © Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune Scott and Pammy Kramer show a picture of their daughter Maddie while sitting with their younger daughter Lily, 4, at their Lakeview home on May 5, 2021. When their toddler daughter Maddie was diagnosed with cancer in 2017, Scott and Pammy Kramer felt her care was in good hands. They had a wonderful Chicago doctor who talked them through a path forward. But Maddie’s treatment plan was based on scant data, as her rare childhood cancer could not lean on research and data more typically available for adult cancers. And most medications for her little body, her parents recalled, were designed for adults.

Kids cancer treatment disrupted at most hospitals worldwide due to COVID-19

Kids cancer treatment disrupted at most hospitals worldwide due to COVID-19 By (0) The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted cancer treatment for children globally, a new study has found. Photo by Semevent/Pixabay March 3 (UPI) Care for children with cancer has been disrupted at nearly 80% of hospitals globally because of the pandemic, a survey published Wednesday by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health found. More than 40% of hospitals surveyed last summer reported that they had made fewer new cancer diagnoses than expected, and about one-third saw a rise in the number of pediatric cancer patients abandoning treatment, the data showed. Advertisement Seven percent of the responding hospitals said they had closed their pediatric cancer units at some point during the pandemic.

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