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. 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.