Call for a European Paediatric Association/Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations Survey on National Child Health Care Services for European Children with Malignancies

Highly specialized pediatric centers are needed for the diagnosis and treatment of rare but life-threatening conditions, including malignant diseases, because children with these disorders require complex diagnostic procedures and high-end therapeutic interventions, such as stem cell transplantation.1,2 Centralization of subspecialty care is instrumental to ensure the quality of care that correlates with experience and consequently with the number of rare cases diagnosed and treated, as is seen in pediatric oncology, as well as in maternal and neonatal care.

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