UK survival of children with bone cancer lowest in Europe

12 January 2009

Survival for childhood bone cancer is slightly lower in the UK than in any other western European country, according to research published in  the British Journal of Cancer on January 7. Although five-year survival  from childhood cancer in the UK has now reached 75%, and for some types  of cancer it is over 90%, that for osteosarcoma - the most common type  of childhood bone cancer - has not improved in the last 20 years,  remaining at about 60%.

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