The recently published CONCORD-4 study provides the most comprehensive global analysis of childhood cancer survival to date. Using real-world data from over 600,000 children across 68 countries. It introduces a new Cancer Survival Index to enable comparable tracking of progress over time.

The publication highlights that while survival has improved globally since 1990, significant disparities persist  globally ranging from over 80% in high-income countries to around 50–60% in lower-income settings. These findings stress the urgent need to strengthen health systems and expand cancer registration to achieve inform policy actions to advance toward the GICC target by 2030.

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