Each year, in Spain, about 1,600 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in children (between 350 and 400 are adolescents). Survival in Spain is high, but "something is happening that our results on survival in childhood cancer are not improving," according to Dr. Ana Fernández-Teijeiro, who chairs the Spanish Society of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology (SEHOP).

According to the data that this organization handles, to date, of every ten children with cancer seven are cured, "that figure was something unthinkable 30 years ago". That is the positive reading, the negative is that "for three years" in Spain there has been "a stagnation in the survival of cancer in children." More information