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UK child cancer survival rates 15th highest in EuropeDate: 01/08/2007 08:56:50
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British children are less likely to survive cancer than those in other European countries, scientists have claimed.
In a study published in The Lancet Oncology, Professor Craft and Professor Pritchard-Jones report that, while 27.4 per cent of German children with cancer were diagnosed during a visit to a health professional for an unrelated issue, just 11 per cent of child patients at London's Royal Marseden Hospital and four per cent of those treated at the General Hospital or the Royal Victoria Infirmary had their cancers diagnosed this way.
The specialists concluded that such early diagnosis by routine or incidental examination is linked to increased survival rates among children, leading them to call for better health surveillance systems to be introduced across the UK.
"Sub-optimum survival for childhood cancer is just one example of the worse state of children's healthcare in the UK compared with many other countries," the report states.
"The perinatal mortality rate puts the UK in fifteenth position in Europe and there is clear evidence that children with diabetes are [also] not receiving optimum care."
However, according to Cancer Research UK, overall survival rates from childhood cancer are around 77 per cent and as much as 90 per cent for some forms of the disease.
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