Symptoms include fatigue, pale color, repeated infections, and excessive bruising and bleeding. Treatment is typically chemotherapy though on rare occassions radiation therapy is also used. Survival rates for the most common form of leukemia, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, are approaching 80 percent. There are about 900 cases a year of the most common form bone cancer, osteosarcoma, which mainly strikes teenagers. Symptoms include pain and swelling around the tumor, restricted movement, fractures, tiredness, fever and weight loss.
Treatment includes surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
About three-quarters of all osteosarcoma patients survive. A cancer of the lymph system, the primary tissue of the body's immune system, that affects about 1,700 children under 16 each year. Symptoms vary greatly depending on the location of tumours but can include swollen lymph nodes, a distended abdomen, or coughing and shortness of breath along with fever, chills or night sweats. 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.