Australian researchers are racing to develop new cancer treatments for children that are just as powerful as current therapies but far less toxic, as survivors face lifelong health complications from chemotherapy and radiation.
About two in three survivors are left with long-term health effects from treatments originally designed for adults.
Wyatt and Theodore are among the survivors who paid a heavy price for beating leukaemia.
Professor Louis Chesler from the Children’s Cancer Institute said the problem stems from treatments.
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Australian researchers are racing to develop new cancer treatments for children that are just as powerful as current therapies but far less toxic, as survivors face lifelong health complications from chemotherapy and radiation.
More than 1000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year in Australia, with survival rates now exceeding 80 per cent. About two in three survivors are left with long-term health effects from treatments originally designed for adults.
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Wyatt and Theodore are among the survivors who paid a heavy price for beating leukaemia. Wyatt was just three years old when diagnosed, with two years of treatment leaving him permanently deaf in one ear.
“They don’t want them,” said Wyatt’s mother Jessica Dickinson.
Professor Louis Chesler from the Children’s Cancer Institute said the problem stems from treatments.
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