The childhood cancer mortality rate all over the world has dramatically declined during the past decade. With gratitude to the advances in treatment that we have today, the mortality rate of childhood cancer has decreased by 1.7%. These children are below 15 years of age. This decline in the mortality rate is credited to the bone marrow transplants and other treatments that aim to cure cancer and help children and teens survive the disease.
Last 2004, it has been noted that leukemia is the type of cancer that causes most mortality in all types childhood cancer. The cancer of the brain and the nervous system was the second one. From 1990 to 2004, the mortality rate of leukemia declined by 3% annually, and the mortality for brain and nervous system cancer declined by 1% per year.
The decline in childhood cancer mortality was noted to be lesser in American Indian and Alaska Natives. Their childhood cancer mortality rate still held steady. This has caused researchers to study on the reason behind these phenomena.
It has also been noted that the decline in deaths among children with cancer was rather slow for the Hispanics. The access to health care and health care facilities was the noted cause for the slow decline.
Another pattern which is not yet cleared is the slower decline of childhood cancer death rate in the Western states. The other regions have a successful decline in the mortality rates. The reason behind this is still under study.
The developments in cancer treatment and medications are the main reason why the childhood cancer mortality rate has declined. However, we should also consider focusing more on cancer awareness through health education. Childhood cancer has no specific prevention yet, but if we are all aware of how to detect the cancer early through the manifestations a child has, we could be able to detect the cancer early and increase the rate of survival of the child.

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