New hope for babies with lymphatic cancer

Doctors at the Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam have developed a chemo treatment for babies with acute lymphatic cancer which improves their chance of survival to 50%, reports today’s Volkskrant. In the past babies with this rare form of cancer had just 15% chance of fighting the disease.

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