Surely all children’s lives are precious. Children with cancer are no less important than children fighting malaria, measles, malnutrition and other causes of death we work so hard to stop.
In most low- and middle-income countries, there are no cancer registries to give us accurate statistics. Children often go undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, unreported and unrecorded.
This matters. Not only for children in these countries, but for children everywhere.
Understanding the incidence, risk factors and genetics of childhood cancers from many geographic areas and ethnic groups gives researchers a more complete picture of the diseases they are working to cure.
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