Cancer children infected

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8040546.stm
Summary

Researchers say that they have to do something to prevent cancer patients from dying by infections. The also say that it is possible to do that. The treatment to cancer has been improved. Nevertheless, 25% of all the children who have cancer die because of infection and not by cancer. People who suffer blood cancer have a greater change of getting infections because this cancer already lowers the immune system. For a lot of the infections there already is a treatment. This raises the question, why there are still children dying by those infections.

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I am shocked by this news. They are getting better and better in curing people who have cancer. Dying from an infection during your treatment is scandalous. This can be, and should be prevented. Those people are fighting so hard to get rid of cancer and it is so difficult. We should at least guarantee them that they will not die because of an infection. They really should be more careful with treating their patients.