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A new £1 million research centre is opening in York with the aim of finding better ways to manage the often terrible side effects of children's cancer treatments.

The Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre launches today (November 9) in the University of York.

Across the UK, an average 2,418 children and teenagers are diagnosed with cancer each year, and of all the children that lose their lives, it is reported that one in three die not because of cancer but because of the side effects of treatment.



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