{"id":27207,"date":"2025-02-15T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T08:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27207"},"modified":"2025-02-15T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:28:22","slug":"400000-children-and-adolescents-struck-by-cancer-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/400000-children-and-adolescents-struck-by-cancer-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"400,000 children and adolescents struck by cancer annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that every year, 400,000 children and adolescents between the ages of 1 and 19 are diagnosed with cancer globally, in observance of International Childhood Cancer Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a report published on its website on Saturday, the WHO noted that brain tumors, leukemia infection, and solid tumors are the most common types of cancer in children.<\/p>\n<p>The organization further emphasized that in developed and high-income countries, 80% of children diagnosed with cancer receive successful treatment, owing to the availability of advanced medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, in low- and middle-income countries, only 30% of children with cancer can access treatment.<\/p>\n<p>However, there has been no immediate figure released regarding Afghanistan&#8217;s cancer statistics.<\/p>\n<p>February 15 has been designated as International Childhood Cancer Day.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that every year, 400,000 children and adolescents between the ages of 1 and 19 are diagnosed with cancer globally, in observance of International Childhood Cancer Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":36,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27211,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207\/revisions\/27211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}