Childhood Cancer

Childhood Cancer Introduction

             Childhood Cancers cause heartache for many families.

             These particular types of cancers impact children primarily.  There are some peculiar to children in particular while others are cancers that can occur to a person at any age.  For childhood cancer cases those who are affected are children.

             Childhood Cancer is also called Pediatric Cancer.  Pediatric Cancers are cancers that occur in children anywhere between infancy and fourteen years of age as well as for teenagers from the ages of fifteen to nineteen.

             They are cited as being relatively uncommon.  About 15,800 cases are reported in the United States each year.  Globally more than 300,000 cases are reported annually.

             In the United States individual Childhood Cancers, whether they are brain cancers, lung cancers, bone cancers, or other types of cancer, are termed ‘Rare Diseases’.

             A Rare Disease is any disease that impacts less than 200,000 people.  So, logically, Childhood Cancer appears to be a Rare Disease in the United States but is not a rare disease if looked at globally.

             Reportedly many Childhood Cancers can be treated.  Some of them are termed curable but I don’t have figures on that.  Apparently, from those recorded, over 80% of children and teens that contracted cancer were alive five years and more following the diagnosis.

             There are present three groups of childhood cancers that.  These are leukemias and lymphomas, brain tumors and solid tumors.  According to the the American Cancer Society there are estimates that 415 in 1 million children and teenagers will be advised that they have one of these cancers in 2023.