Ethical Reflection on Treatment Abandonment of Pediatric Cancer / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

About 80％ of children with malignant cancer in developed countries could be cured, while the sur-vival rate in developing countries that account for 80％ of the cases was lower than that of the developed countries. Treatment abandonment is the primary cause leading to the therapeutic failure and mortality in developing coun-tries. This paper discussed the current situation of treatment abandonment of pediatric cancer, the ethical issues and put forward the corresponding solutions, in order to attract more attention of scholars and take corresponding measures, thus to help improve the prognosis of pediatric cancer.