How a Childhood Vaccine Reduces Risk of a Cancer - NYTimes.com
▻http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/scientists-unravel-how-a-vaccine-reduces-risk-of-a-cancer
Young children are routinely vaccinated against Haemophilus influenza type B, or HiB, a bacterium that can cause meningitis and other serious problems. But the HiB vaccine has an added benefit: It reduces the risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, the most common childhood cancer, and now scientists know why.
Your Odds Of Surviving #Cancer Depend Very Much On Where You Live
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/12/01/366852222/your-odds-of-surviving-cancer-depend-very-much-on-where-you-live
In the United States, 9 out of 10 kids diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia will live. In Jordan, the survival rate is 16 percent.
And while cervical cancer patients have a five-year survival rate of over 70 percent in countries like Mauritius and Norway, the rate in Libya is under 40 percent.
That’s the sobering news from the largest cancer study ever published. It surveyed more than 25.7 million patients and reveals a huge gulf in cancer survival worldwide.
Cela doit être vrai pour un bon paquet de maladies ... Les systèmes de santé des pays moins développés est généralement défaillant [sauf peut-être quand ils sont passés dans leur histoire par une phase de communisme ... ;-) ] et il n’y a pas de Sécurité sociale dans beaucoup de ces pays, les médicaments sont à la charge du malade et de sa famille.