World Child Cancer

Over 400,000 children develop cancer worldwide each year. Most of these children live in developing countries where survival rates can be as low as 10%, compared to 80% in high income countries. Thousands of children are dying unnecessarily when they could be treated or cured.

Worse still, the majority of children with cancer die in pain due to a lack of effective palliative care.

Childhood cancer can be curable even in resource-poor countries, the lives of cancer-stricken chi...