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Why Should Childhood Cancer Survival Depend on Where the Child is Born? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1319

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Why Should Childhood Cancer Survival Depend on Where the Child is Born? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1319 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1319 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Preamble This post is based on a World Health Organization Report.. Link at the end. WHO’s 2026 report, Measuring survival, driving change: advancing equity through the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, examines one of the most striking inequalities in global health: children with cancer can face dramatically different chances of survival depending on where they live. The report introduces comparable five-year survival estimates for lymphoid leukaemia across 194 Member States and links better data to stronger policy and health-system action. WHO’s global target is at least 60% childh...