The 'game-changing' plan to cut kids cancer rate to zero

By Esther Han
Updated October 6 2017 - 10:03am, first published September 18 2017 - 1:13pm
Portrait of Isla Batchelor, childhood survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, photographed with her family in Belrose. Pictured with mum Sarah, father Darrin and sisters Lily and Ainsley. Tuesday 12th September 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 170912
Portrait of Isla Batchelor, childhood survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, photographed with her family in Belrose. Pictured with mum Sarah, father Darrin and sisters Lily and Ainsley. Tuesday 12th September 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 170912

In Australia, three children die from cancer each week. But doctors and researchers say they have a "game-changing" plan to drive the death rate down to zero.