India’s childhood cancer survivor rate 94.5%: Study

New Delhi: India's first registry of childhood cancer survivors shows a 94.5 per cent rate of five-year overall survival and nearly 90 per cent event-free survival, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal.

The Indian Childhood Cancer Survivorship (C2S) study, initiated in 2016, is among the world's first registry from a resource-limited setting, researchers said.

The team, including researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, looked at 5,419 children diagnosed with cancer before turning age 18 and in remission post-treatment from 20 centres across the country. Survival data was available for 5,140 participants.