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Childhood cancers: 2nd cause of pediatric mortality in France
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Cancer is diagnosed each year in approximately 300,000 children aged 0-19 years (WHO).
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Childhood cancer is the second leading cause of pediatric mortality in France.
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According to the WHO, cancer is diagnosed each year in approximately 300,000 children between the ages of 0 and 19.
The most common forms are leukemia, brain cancers, lymphomas and solid tumors, such as neuroblastoma and Wilms tumor.
How are diagnoses made?
How to deal with pain?
What treatments exist?
How to manage post-cancer?
Dr Dominique Valteau-Couanet
, Head of the Department of Child and Child Cancerology at
Hôpital Gustave Roussy, in Villejuif
, in the Paris region
Dr Aleine Budiongo,
pediatric oncologist, head of the Pediatric Oncology Unit at the University Clinics of Kinshasa in the DRC
Pr Pierre Bey,
President of
the Franco-African Pediatric Oncology
Group (GFAOP).
Emeritus Professor of Oncology-Radiotherapy at the
University of Lorraine
, former Director of the Institut Curie Hospital in Paris.
Medical Director and Secretary General of the
World Cancer Alliance
Magali Bidoux
, mother of Noa, suffering from glioma of the optic pathways
Jima Rachiratou
, 13, who at the age of 6 had Rhabdomyosarcoma (the most common malignant tumor in children and adolescents).
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