Latest Treatment Abandonment News & Updates

Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Even though experts reckon that childhood cancer survival rates in wealthy nations is over 80 per cent, it drops to below 30 per cent in low and middle-income nations like Pakistan largely due to delay in recognising symptoms, lack of quality supportive care and trained specialists, limited access to specialised treatment and treatment abandonment, a report has detailed. Around 10,000 children are diagnosed with cancer in Pakistan each year, an editorial in Pakistan’s le…