Paediatrics - Oncology
Paediatrics - Oncology
Overview
Most childhood cancers do not have a known cause. Less than one-tenth of all cancers in childhood are caused by a mutation which can be passed from one generation to the next. Childhood cancers are rare and tend to be more aggressive than adult cancers.
Most childhood cancers fall into one of several specific types, as listed below:
- Paediatrics Leukaemia
- Paediatrics Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (About 75%)
- Paediatrics Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (About 20%)
- Paediatrics Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (Rare)
- Paediatrics Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (Rare)
- Paediatrics Lymphoma
- Paediatrics Sickle Cell Anaemia
- Paediatrics Thalassemia
- Paediatrics Melanoma
- Paediatrics Hepatoblastoma
- Paediatrics Brain Tumour
- Paediatrics Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- Paediatrics Germ Cell Tumours
- Neuroblastoma
- Retinoblastoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Ewing Sarcoma
- Spinal Cord Tumours
- Wilms Tumour