Study flags long travel distances faced by children with cancer to access specialised care in India

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NEW DELHI: Fifteen-year-old Shivam Kumar has to travel over 1,000 km twice a month, from Patna to Delhi's AIIMS, after his cancer relapsed in 2024. In 2020, Kumar, the youngest of six children, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a group of blood cancers that develop in the lymphatic system. He…