Childhood malignancies
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Unfortunately the paediatric population is susceptible to malignancies. The most common entities, in overall order of frequency, are 1-4:
- leukaemia/lymphoma: ~35% *
- central nervous system malignancies: ~20%
- solid tumours
- blastomas: ~15%
- neuroblastoma: 7%
- Wilms tumour: 6%
- retinoblastoma
- sarcomas: ~10%
- rhabdomyosarcoma: 3%
- osteosarcoma: 3%
- Ewing sarcoma: 2%
- blastomas: ~15%
It is important to note that the incidence of various tumours varies with age, and thus the order above is not true throughout childhood 3.
-<a title="Leukaemia" href="/articles/leukaemia">leukaemia</a>/<a title="Lymphoma" href="/articles/lymphoma">lymphoma</a>: ~35% *<ul>- +<a href="/articles/leukaemia">leukaemia</a>/<a href="/articles/lymphoma">lymphoma</a>: ~35% *<ul>
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