<p>In this 2004 photo provided by the family, Garrett Stringer, 11, right, visits his brother Gatlin, 6, during a chemotherapy session at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Both were successfully treated for acute lymphocytic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer.</p>
June 3, 2015
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June 3, 2015 9 p.m.
Cancer treatments got gentler, yet kids' survival improved
Fewer children die of side effects from radiation, chemotherapy
CHICAGO - The move to make cancer treatments gentler for children has paid a double dividend: More kids are surviving than ever before, and without the long-term complications that doomed many of their peers a generation ago, new research shows.