February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day.<\/p>\n
International Childhood Cancer Day is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer and to express support for children and adolescents with cancer, the survivors and their families.<\/p>\n
The theme of this year’s campaign is ‘Better Survival is achievable #throughyourhands”. <\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n 80-100 new cases of childhood cancer are registered annually in Armenia. The most common are leukemias, followed by brain tumors, lymphomas, bone tumors, neuroblastoma, etc.<\/p>\n According to the World Health Organization, 80% of children with cancer – 4 out of 5 patients -are recovering in high-income countries, while in low-income countries, an average of 20% of children are recovering, that is – 1 out of 5 patients.<\/p>\n Armenia, being among the low and middle-income countries, is close to developed countries: according to pediatric oncology data, 70-75% of children with cancer recover in our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day. International Childhood Cancer Day is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer and to express support for children and adolescents with cancer, the survivors and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-139523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n