Spain is at the tail of survival of childhood leukemia in Europe. This could change, but it requires that public administrations Bring to Spain the protocol that much of Europe uses and that saves more lives than the current one. The Unoentrecienmil Foundation has launched a campaign to collect enough forms to send this protocol. In the meantime, children with leukemia will have a hard time feeling proud of being Spanish. This is the message that sends the new campaignof the foundation by the hand of actor Luis Tosar.
As he says, these little ones would prefer be born in one of the countries that they have actually updated the protocol and that, as a result, they are saving more lives. This is the case of Portugal, France, Germany. Also of Finlandwhere the survival rate is 10 points higher than that of Spain (95.2% against 84.7%): 31 additional children are saved each year.
Since the foundation, they explain that Some patients have already started treatment (since March 204) with this protocol thanks to the entry into the project of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. But for this to apply to all patients, it is necessary for them to make a gesture. public administrations and investing.
“With a annual public investment “For about 1.5 million euros, or 5,500 euros per patient, doctors could better treat our children,” says the letter on the site signed by a father who lost his 14 year old son last year after 10 years of illness.
Daniel insisted in statements to LaSexta that The ALL Together protocol has a survival rate bigger than ours and also aims to reduce the relapse rate, which was one of your son’s big problems.
