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Majority of children with cancer recover from COVID without developing complications
At a time when parents are worried over the possibility of children being adversely infected by the third wave of COVID-19, here is a positive development.
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GUWAHATI: At a time when parents are worried over the possibility of children being adversely infected by the third wave of COVID-19, here is a positive development. Doctors are claiming that the majority of children suffering from cancer have recovered from COVID-19 without developing complications.
Altogether 34 children at the Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) so far this year. Till Monday (July 5, 2021), as many as 30 children have recovered from COVID-19 without developing complications. Even though four children are yet to test COVID negative, they have not developed any complications.
GSRGT 2020: The International Germ Cell Cancer Collaborative Group (IGCCCG) Update
(Urotoday.com) The newly formed Global Society of Rare Genitourinary Tumors (GSRGT) held its inaugural meeting, focusing on penile and testicular cancer. The session held Saturday, December 12
th focused on testis cancer. In this session, the organizers convened a “Clinical Trials Corner” in which Dr. Silke Gillessen presented an update from the International Germ Cell Cancer Collaborative Group (IGCCCG).
As clinicians treating germ cell tumors will know, the International Germ Cell Cancer Collaborative Group published a consensus-based prognostic classification of germ cell tumors in 1997. This stratification has been widely used since that time for both clinical care and trial design. Notably, it was based on treatments delivered between 1975 and 1990, in which not all patients received cisplatin-based regimes which would now be considered standard of care.