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a total of more than 5,600 child survivors of the deadly disease since the 1970s have decreased WITH advances in treatment techniques for cancer. the Results were obtained after researchers compared the average rate of survival of children with cancer since 1971 until 2005.

In the early 1970s, only about a third of children with leukemia who survive only about five years. Currently, their survival rate more than 80 percent. Similarly, the survival rate for neuroblastoma, a cancer affecting the nervous tissue, has increased from just 17 percent to 64 percent

The increase was largely due to the development of combination treatments and new ways to deliver high-dose chemotherapy, experts said as quoted by the Press Association on Monday (14/11). A turning point came when the scientists also found there were several types of leukemia.

Professor Peter Johnson, chief clinician charity Cancer Research UK said, "We fund the trial to offer a new treatment for children with a new, highly aggressive cancer of neuroblastoma."

"Cancer in children is difficult to study especially with the number of children who are relatively few diagnosed each year. But our researchers continue to strive to find ways to diagnose the disease earlier and look for new drugs and to make existing treatments more effective