Treatment includes surgery and chemotherapy and sometimes radiation therapy as well. Survival rates run from 75 percent to 90 percent for children whose cancer is caught at an early stage. A cancer that strikes mainly infants and toddlers in which the cancer seems to arise in the developing nerve cells of the fetus. It can strike throughout the body in different areas touched by the nervous system and affects about 550 children a year. Symptoms vary depending on where the cancer is but include unusual lumps, swelling, fever, diarhea, bone pain, limping paralysis, weakness or frequent infections.
Treatment includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
Survival is high when the disease is caught early but most cases are not and at most 40 percent survive. There are about 1,500 cases a year of Wilm's Tumour, the most common form of kidney tumor in children. Symptoms include a large lump in the belly, stomach pain, fever and blood in the urine. Treatment includes surgery and chemotherapy, and sometimes radiation therapy. Survival rates are good at 93 percent.