{"id":2265,"date":"2012-10-17T02:24:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:46:04","slug":"childhood-cancer-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/childhood-cancer-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"More children are beating cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2283\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/10\/17\/childhood-cancer-figures\/111dan-20121016184540425768-300x0-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/10\/111dan-20121016184540425768-300x02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cancer survivor Julian Pegoraro with his brother Christian. Photo courtesy of The Age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"left\">Survival for Victorian children diagnosed with cancer is at an all-time high, with a report released by Cancer Council Victoria today showing overall five-year cancer survival in children under the age of 15 years has increased from 68 per cent in 1982 to 82 per cent in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Director, RCH\u00a0Children&#8217;s Cancer Centre Dr Francoise Mechinaud said\u00a0the way we support patients and new medication can be attributed to the improved outcomes, but there is still much work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brain is a significant issue &#8211; not only can the tumour be quite aggressive, but there are issues about whether we can do surgery because some areas of the brain are so crucial&#8221;, Dr Mechinaud told The Age.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that\u00a0the\u00a0number of children treated in paediatric system had increased significantly since the introduction of the\u00a0Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service (PICS) in 2004.\u00a0The PICS is a partnership between the RCH, Southern Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer\u00a0Centre that was established to provide the best care, in the best facility, as close to home as possible.<\/p>\n<p>RCH patient and cancer survivor Julian Pegoraro\u00a0said being diagnosed with cancer was confronting but that at the time\u00a0he had to get used to it, and\u00a0the support everyone gave him was what got him through.\u00a0&#8220;Everyone was so kind&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click\u00a0on the links\u00a0to read <a title=\"Julian Pegoraro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/two-bouts-on-julian-thrives-20121016-27p39.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a> and <a title=\"Jake Hagan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/more-kids-are-beating-cancer-because-of-advances-in-treatments-cancer-council-says\/story-e6frf7kx-1226497344502\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun<\/a> stories.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click below to view the Seven News story.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/51653325\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survival for Victorian children diagnosed with cancer is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}