‘Childhood cancers are more amenable to treatment and have better cure rates as compared to adult cancers’ February 23, 2021, 8:31 PM IST
A selection of interviews that appear in TOI.
Over four lakh children are detected with cancer every year in the world and in India the reported cases are around 50,000. As the number of such cases is increasing, with survival rates in developing and underdeveloped countries falling, WHO in 2018 announced a Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer.
Manas Kalra, a senior paediatric oncologist at New Delhi’s Ganga Ram Hospital, spoke to
Amit Anand Choudhary on precautionary measures that need to be taken: