The Ministry of Health of the State of Durango, through the State Cancer Center, 110 diagnosed cases of cancer in the age group 10 to 17 years old during the period 2005 to 2014, the head of the agency, said Eduardo Diaz Juarez
In a statement released by the agency report, said that 45 of these cases have been in women and 65 in men, corresponding to 34.5 percent of all tumors diagnosed in children under 18 years.
The state official said the most common cancer in this age is leukemia, followed by lymphomas, nervous system tumors, germ cell tumors and sarcomas, hence the importance of detecting them in time to have a better prognosis.
