A collaboration between a British university and Indian institutions is helping improve the survival rates associated with childhood cancer in India.
The collaboration between the University of Manchester and the Tata Medical Centre in Kolkata is helping to improve cure rates in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in India by 10-15 percent.
The knowledge transfer from Manchester is also raising standards of cancer care at Paediatric Cancer Centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Chandigarh, the university said on International Cancer Survivors Day on Sunday.