Posted on 16/07/03
Canada's child cancer shame
About 1,300 children and teenagers are diagnosed with cancer in Canada each year -- the commonest cause of disease-related death in our children.Happily, 70 per cent of those children will be cured and, with continued research, by the year 2010, as many as 85 per cent of such victims will be cured. So why is our federal government gutting research funding into childhood cancer?
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