Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute: A New Attempt at Bridge-Building for Childhood
For children diagnosed with cancer, the number one cause of death by disease in the United States, amazing progress has been made over the course of the past thirty to forty years. Thankfully the result is that for many children with cancer there are effective treatments and protocols, and five-year survival statistics have increased dramatically. Unfortunately, for one in five children with cancer, overall survival numbers for those specific cancers have stagnated with little to no improvement.