The Prevention Of Childhood Cancer

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It would be cancerous for Americans to not continue to find and develop cures for calamitous, disturbing diseases. Cancer, has affected everyone with not just experiences personally but close friends and relatives. Research for all diseases are constantly being updated but especially cancer, due to several possible treatments and diagnosis. Centuries ago and even just a few decades ago cancer was being misdiagnosed or unable to be diagnosed. Radiation and Chemo are two of the most commonly used and known treatments, there are huge differences between pediatric and adult cancers and the way they are treated, diagnosed and removed. Although many Americans’ lives have been affected by cancer, research for cancers between adult and pediatric cancers, and cancer treatments have evolved over time to provide Americans with increasingly better options and outcomes.
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Although substantial advancement has been shuffle in the treatment of several type of childhood Cancer over the past 5 decades, advancement against other types has been limited. Even when long condition survival is achieved, many survivors of childhood genus Cancer may experience long term adverse issue from the disease or its treatment. Clearly, more research is needed to develop new, more effective, and safer treatment for childhood cancer. Another challenge is that very little is known about the causes of childhood

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