Childhood Leukemia Survival Now At 90%.

Childhood Leukemia Survival Now At 90%.

From 1990 to 2005, the cure rate for the most common form of childhood leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has increased to 90%.  Given that the disease was essentially incurable just fifty years ago, this is a tremendous achievement.  The author of the article, Dr. Stephen Hunger, stressed that the work will not stop until the cure rate is 100%