Good News For Pediatric Leukemia Patients

Childhood tumors in general and Leukemia in particular are chemotherapy success stories. Over the past twenty years survival has been steadily increasing due to chemotherapy drugs and refinements in chemotherapy combinations.

From the German Childhood Cancer Registry comes the good news that the survival rate for childhood leukemia patients at 15 years is 72,9%. Considering that these childhood leukemias were previously almost 100% fatal in a short period of time, the news from Germany is highly encouraging. Future drugs or combinations will no doubt improve on these results until the ultimate goal of 100% cure is reached.

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August 21, 2002