{"id":3538,"date":"2019-05-09T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/?page_id=3538"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:52:00","slug":"pediatric-oncology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/pediatric-oncology\/","title":{"rendered":"Pediatric Oncology"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]In Portugal, every year around 400 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental death in the child and adolescent population, although these days, thanks to great progress in terms of diagnosis and treatment in recent decades, nearly 90% of these children and adolescents survive.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about the causes that lead to the onset of cancer in children and adolescents, which leads to prevention to be virtually non-existent.<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The most common types of cancer in children are Leukaemia, Lymphomas and Central Nervous System Tumours.<\/p>\n<p>In Portugal there are four paediatric oncology centres: Portuguese Oncology Institute Francisco Gentil in Lisbon, Paediatric Hospital in Coimbra, Portuguese Oncology Institute Francisco Gentil in Oporto and S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o Hospital in Oporto.<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Learn more:<a href=\"http:\/\/pipop.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1470 size-medium\" title=\"http\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner_pipop-300x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froc.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner_pipop-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/froc.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/banner_pipop.png 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2314&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]In Portugal, every year around 400 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer. Cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental death in the child and adolescent population, although these days, thanks to great progress in terms of diagnosis and treatment in recent decades, nearly 90% of these children and adolescents survive. Little is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3538\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}