New findings in paediatric oncology

Alicja Chybicka

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2/2007
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New findings in paediatric oncology

Alicja Chybicka

Przew Lek 2007; 2: 174-180

Online publish date: 2007/03/16

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Currently most cancers in childhood can be cured; the mean cure rate is 70%, while in some of them it is 90%. Over the last three decades great progress in childhood cancer therapy has been made because of successes of basic science, diagnostic procedures and modern therapy. Advances in cancer diagnosis and therapy including new drugs such as monoclonal antibodies and new antifungal medicines have been described. When medicine is becoming ineffective and an ill adult or child is getting close to an inevitable end, palliative care, which decreases suffering and pain, is necessary. Every death, especially of a young human being, who has just begun his life, brings pain to his family. Therefore his relatives are in need of support.

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New findings in paediatric oncology

Alicja Chybicka

oncology, immatinib, monoclonal antibodies, children, palliative care