Patients classifications by risk groups

The findings also helped the team to accurately classify patients into three risk groups: high, medium and normal. Professor Richard Grundy, Dr. John-Paul Kilday and colleagues found an association between a greater number of copies of a specific region of a chromosome 1q25 called and about 20% of tumors obtained from children who are diagnosed variant of the deadly brain cancer.

Increased probability of survival

At the same time, however, has also substantially increased the chance of surviving cancer thanks largely to advances in the diagnosis and treatment. In the five years after the disease, children survive by 75% in Western Europe and 64% for children in Eastern Europe, with the same increase in the case of adolescents. In the 70's, however, survived cancer 44% of children, and 50% of adolescents.

Childhood cancer has increased the last thirty years

Among adolescents aged 15 to 19 years the average has increased at a rate of 1.5% per year. However, advances in diagnosis and treatment have reduced infant mortality from the disease in the West. Are results from analysis of data provided by 19 European countries, By   Vanessa Marsh. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reports, the incidence of childhood cancer and the survival of children with cancer in Europe has increased over the last thirty years, The results of a study conducted by Dr. Eva Steliarova-Foucher, project director at the IARC, and his colleagues have produced clear evidence of that increase.