Tag: Texas Children’s Cancer Center

Ensuring Happy, Productive Lives for Childhood Cancer Survivors

Overall childhood cancer survival rates now approach 80%. That is an exciting statistic! In childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), cure rates are as high as 95% in some patient groups. When you think back to the mid 60′s, when ALL cure rates were only 5% – that is a phenomenal improvement. And why??? The multi-institutional…