Developing Countries
While cancer survival rates are increasing in the United States, children in developing countries are suffering because of the lack of advanced health care systems. More than 60 percent of the world's children with cancer have little or no access to effective therapy, and their survival rates are predictably inferior to those in countries with advanced health care systems.
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