Last week I discovered Twitter a story that caught my attention powerfully. He came to tell us that 52% of patients who suffered a childhood cancer consider this experience as positive, compared with 24% that they labeled as negative. These percentages are not negligible, since at present the rate of cure of this disease is approximately 80% in overall figures.
I do not like to see children Malito. Not even for a cold, let alone serious illness. Trying to find more information, I found the tables of survival of small cancer in Spain and I got a pleasant surprise. Between 1980 and 1984, a time when I myself was a student more than the Faculty of Medicine, Santiago de Compostela, the survival rate for all childhood cancers after 5 years have elapsed since diagnosis was barely 54%. However, between 1997 and 2000 this figure had increased to 74%.
tumors remained the most common leukemia, with 23% of the total, followed by the central nervous system tumors, with 18%, and lymphomas, with 13%. But what were the causes justificabann a 20% increase in childhood cancer survival from the start of the 80's to late 90's? "Pediatricians and Oncologists most qualified?," More effective treatments?, "Substantial progress in early diagnosis?," Better health status of children in general?, "Best food?," Most modern hospitals? ... Possibly a combination of the above.
English cinema has not been maintained regardless of the suffering child, and little by little have been jumping to the big screen stories starring young cancer patients, from the bare "4th Floor" (Antonio Mercer, 2003), who tucked his antics hospital under the banner of no we are lame, we Cojonudos, through the award-winning "The Way" (Javier Fesser, 2008), based on the true story of a girl who is faced with a devastating cancer serenity neurological to the most current and "Live Forever" ( Gustavo Ron, 2010), in which a 12-year-old wants to conquer the world while battling leukemia or "flying train" (Paco Torres, 2011), in which a mother loses hope that her daughter can beat leukemia.
In "Letters to God" ( Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 2009) , a child with terminal cancer, he wrote letters to a God who does not believe, but it helps to accept death as an inevitable part of life. Little angel hurt.
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