Childhood cancer survival rates rise in Austria
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Caroline Hutter and Sabine Taschner-Mandl, directors at St. Anna Children’s Hospital in Austria, examined the current state of childhood cancer research.
They explained that diagnoses now identify the genes involved in the disease, and some children are even born with cancer because the illness affects cells present only in embryos. While childhood cancer remains a serious condition, Austria has comparatively high survival rates.
Currently, around eighty percent of children with cancer in Austria survive the disease, a substantial increase from thirty years ago when the survival rate was only twenty percent. Hutter cautioned that some tumor cells can remain hidden even after treatment, but other forms of cancer are more easily detected. Taschner-Mandl described an advanced tumor as a shapeless mass that can weigh several kilograms and be felt in areas like the pelvic region.
