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15-02-2021
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Artists of the Bolshoi Theatre perform for child cancer patients of the Dmitry Rogachev Centre during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
On International Childhood Cancer Day 2021, WHO/Europe highlights progressive ways to achieve better outcomes for children with cancer in the WHO European Region. The Russian Federation’s steps to merge paediatric haematology and paediatric oncology into one medical specialty is an inspiring example of how countries’ health and education systems can adapt to new methods and save children’s lives.
Childhood cancer: a different disease
Childhood cancers have fundamentally different characteristics and are being treated in different ways compared to “grown-up” oncological diseases. These cancer types are much more likely to be genetic and can develop before the child is even born.