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Is Childhood cancer curable?

Childhood cancer accounts for the second cause of death in children, but the good news is that many childhood cancers are highly treatable now. More than 80 percent of kids who get cancer today survive five years or longer.

What are the signs of childhood cancer?

Although your paediatrician is probably an excellent doctor, they may have never diagnosed childhood cancer. So you need to know to trust your intuition when you feel that there is something wrong with your child, even if the doctor initially interprets the symptoms as a common childhood ailment.

In this video, Dr Unni S Pillai tries to outline Childhood cancer or paediatric cancers, how it affects and types of cancers etc.

( Jump to 1:32 ) What cancer is common in children?

The main types of paediatric cancers encountered are leukaemias, neuroblastomas, Wilms’ tumours, brain cancers, rhabdomyosarcomas, lymphomas, retinoblastomas, osteosarcomas and Ewing’s sarcomas.

What is the percentage of cured childhood cancers?

Leukaemia is a cancer of the bone marrow, the spongy center of the bones that makes blood cells. It accounts for approximately 35% of all childhood cancers.

Although it is more common in children under the age of 10, approximately 1 in 1000 children are diagnosed with leukaemia in one-year-old.

Neuroblastoma is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in nerve tissue of the adrenal gland, neck, chest or spinal cord. It accounts for 5%-7% of all childhood malignancies and usually occurs by the age of 5.

Wilms’ tumour is a type of kidney cancer also known as nephroblastoma. It accounts for 6-7% of childhood cancer cases.

It occurs in about 8 in 1 million children under the age of 14 but is more common in children under 5. Some children have a genetic tendency to develop Willms’ tumours, usually because other family members have developed Wilms’ or specific development problems from birth.

Brain cancers account for 15% of paediatric cancers. The symptoms depend on the location of the tumour. The two main types of brain tumours that affect children are gliomas and medulloblastomas. Gliomas develop from the supporting cells of the brain, which hold the nerve cells in place, and brainstem gliomas occur almost only in children.

The average age of development is about six years old. Medulloblastoma originates in the cerebellum or posterior fossa and may spread to other parts of the brain or into the spinal cord. Most medulloblastomas occur before the age of 10.

(Jump to 2:40) To know how much does it cost to treat childhood cancer?

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