INDIA'S 1ST CHILDHOOD CANCER REGISTRY RECORDS 94.5% FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL

India’s first registry of childhood cancer survivors showsa 94.5 percent rate of five-year overall survival and nearly 90 per cent event-free survival, according toa study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal.

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The Indian Childhood Cancer Survivorship (C2S) study, initiated in 2016, is among the world’s first registry from aresource-limited setting, researchers said.

The team, including researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, looked at 5,419 children diagnosed with cancer before turning age 18 and in remission post-treatment from 20 centres across the country. Survival data was available for 5,140 participants.

Acute leukaemia was found to be the most common diagnosis (40.9 per cent), while common therapeutic strategies included chemotherapy for 94.7 per cent of the participants, surgery for 30 per cent and radiotherapy for 26.3 per cent.