Ebook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2
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Chapter Twelve337Solid Tumours and Histiocytosis Jon Pritchard • Richard Grundy Antony Michalski • Mark N Gaze Gill A LevittINTRODUCTIONCancer affects Ebook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2s about 1 in 600 children worldwide. Leukaemia (bone marrow cancer) is the commonest form (30-35% of all cancer in childhood), followed by brain tumours (20-25%), lymphomas including Hodgkin’s disease (10%), soft tissue sarcomas, particularly rhabdomyosarcoma (8%), neuroblastoma and Wilms’ tumour (6 Ebook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2-7%). Leukaemia and lymphoma arc covered in the ‘Blood Diseases’chapter. Other rarer forms of cancer also occur (see Table 12.1).Fortunately, well oveEbook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2
r half of all children with cancer and leukaemia can now be completely cured. Unlike some other diseases (e.g. diabetes), patients cured of childhood Chapter Twelve337Solid Tumours and Histiocytosis Jon Pritchard • Richard Grundy Antony Michalski • Mark N Gaze Gill A LevittINTRODUCTIONCancer affects Ebook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2their twenties have already been cured of childhood cancer.Table 12.1 Types of childhood cancers and cure ratesType of CancerAcute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL)* Brain tumourLymphomas - Hodgkin's disease Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas Sarcomas of soft tissueAcute myeloid leukaemia (AML) NeuroblastomaWilms' t Ebook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2umour (nephroblastoma) OsteosarcomaEwing's sarcoma (PNET)‘ • ’ Malignant germ cell tumour RetinoblastomaRare tumours****Percentage of children's canceEbook Paediatrics and child health: Part 2
r25-30%20-25%0,040,068-9%7-8%7-8%6-7%3-4%3-4%2-3%0,032-3%Current average cure rate60-70%See** *80-90%60-90%0,650-60%0,5Chapter Twelve337Solid Tumours and Histiocytosis Jon Pritchard • Richard Grundy Antony Michalski • Mark N Gaze Gill A LevittINTRODUCTIONCancer affectsChapter Twelve337Solid Tumours and Histiocytosis Jon Pritchard • Richard Grundy Antony Michalski • Mark N Gaze Gill A LevittINTRODUCTIONCancer affectsGọi ngay
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