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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
No longer a death sentence … positive new data for children recovering from childhood leukemia. Photo: Gabriele Charotte
CHILDHOOD leukaemia is no longer a death sentence, with nine out of 10 children now surviving it, new international research has shown.
A study of more than 21,000 people treated for leukaemia as children, including in Australia, showed that five-year survival rates rose to 90 per cent between 2000 and 2005, up from 84 per cent between 1990 and 1994.
The study, printed in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is the largest ever published of patients treated for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, which accounts for three-quarters of childhood cases of the blood cancer.
The lead author and a professor of paediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Stephen Hunger, said: ”This was a disease that was incurable in the early 1960s and now 85 to 90 per cent of children will be cured. That’s a pretty big advance in that time.”
A Leukaemia Foundation spokesman, Anthony Steele, said the results were encouraging, and a ”beacon” for the treatment of other cancers.
”It’s been a very interesting journey, there hasn’t been any great breakthroughs in new treatments,” he said.
”They’ve used current treatments in better ways though a lot of clinical trials. They just keep testing and improving until they’ve got these outcomes.”
Mr Steele said about 210 children up to the age of 14 were diagnosed with leukaemia in Australia each year.
He said the focus now needed to shift to the 10 per cent of patients who did not survive and on improving the quality of life for survivors who could face developmental and learning difficulties.
with Bloomberg
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