Endocrine Abstracts

More children with cancer are being cured (overall survival is now ~80%) – but at what cost? Although very few new chemotherapeutic agents have been introduced into the treatment of childhood cancer in recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding the child’s response to treatment. Many patients are now ‘risk stratified’ – not only based on stage or subtype of disease, but also on response to initial therapy. This has allowed the id...