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Making Successes Public
Last update on: 07/14/2010
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Cancer during childhood and adolescents is currently curable in three out of four cases. Within the last four decade, we were able to record rapid progress in the area of child cancer medicine. Research has been a substantial contributor to this. >>
Despiteb our successes, all therapies must be improved to enable more children and adolescents, suffering from cancer to overcome their disease. Due to this there must be continual research.>>
Already today, there are several 100.000 people who have been cured from cancer during childhood. Temporary or permanent medical repercussions, psychological and social problems may also arise after overcoming child cancer. Due to the increasing chances of a cure, there is an increasing importance of specific aftercare programmes. >>
The initiative "Overcoming Cancer with Research", which is supported by the European Commission, applies creative measures to illustrate comprehensibly the outstanding achievement of childhood cancer research. With the use of events, symposia and a TV-movie we strive to also communicate complex aspects of this area. >>
We greatly appreciate your interest,
Helmut Gadner, MD, FRCP (G)
Medical Director of St. Anna and
of the Children`s Cancer Research Institute and
DIRECT project-cooridnator, Vienna, Austria
& the DIRECT project partners
German Childhood Cancer Foundation, St. Anna Children`s Hospital, Otto Pammer Filmproduction
