Children's cancers
Cancer in children is relatively rare, affecting about 1,500 children aged 0-14 each year in the UK. Childhood cancer is not one disease but many, and children tend to develop different kinds of cancer compared with adults.
Cancer Research UK is a major funder of research into children’s cancer in the UK. Our support for the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group helps ensure that new treatments are tested in clinical trials and that the cure rates continue to climb.
Thanks to research there have been major advances in treatment and around three-quarters of children with cancer are successfully treated. Our researchers are committed to understanding why cancer develops so that treatments can be better tailored to each child with cancer.
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- Advances in children's cancer
- August 2007 podcast transcript
- Celebrity supporters
- Childhood Cancer incidence statistics
- Childhood Cancer mortality statistics
- Childhood Cancer risk factors
- Childhood Cancer statistics trends
- Childhood Cancer survival statistics
- Childhood Cancer symptoms and diagnosis
- Childhood Cancer treatment and follow-up
- Corporate supporters
- Do you know a Little Star?
- Dr Janet Shipley
- Dr Robert Newton
- Dr Stefan Meyer
- Genetic factors - Childhood cancer
- July 2009 podcast transcript
- Little Stars enjoy big day out at London Zoo
- Meet our Little Stars
- Our progress and achievements in the 1980s
- Prof David Walker
- Prof Jillian Birch
- Prof Kathy Pritchard-Jones
- Prof Mike Hawkins
- Prof Nazneen Rahman
- Prof Vaskar Saha
- Research on children's cancers
- UK Childhood Cancer statistics
Browse news and press releases about Children's cancers
- Britain rivals the US in childhood cancer survival
- Child cancer survivors face increased cancer risk later in life
- Childhood cancer may lead to long-term health issues says study
- Children with cancer 'failed' by system
- Early stage drug shows promise against cancer cells from young patients
- Hope for children with cancer - leading scientist speaks out at national conference
- IARC finds more cancers linked to tobacco and alcohol
- Light show brightens prospects for children with cancer
- Newcastle scientists working to improve treatment of childhood brain cancers
- Organ retention issue deals blow to children's cancer research
- Researchers ease fears over radon
- Scientists find marker that signals better brain cancer survival for children
- Scientists to study possible link between pregnancy caffeine and childhood leukaemia
- Study offers childhood brain tumour treatment hope
- Survivors of childhood Hodgkin's Disease have increased risk of cancer
- Teen cancer survival on the rise, but more work needed
- Charity reassures families over childhood cancer survival stats
- Childhood brain cancer may be caused by infection
- Children in developing world bear the burden of cancer
- Discrepancies in long-term care of childhood cancer survivors
- Eight gene mutations appear to cause childhood brain cancer
- Hope for pioneering immunotherapy treatment for childhood cancer
- L.I.S.A. set to transform children's cancer care
- New childhood brain cancer genes identified
- Nursery attendance may reduce the risk of childhood leukaemia
- Researchers call for better infection prevention for child cancer patients
- Rogue gene linked to breast and childhood cancer risk
- Scientists identify gene for childhood neuroblastoma
- Study improves understanding of childhood kidney cancer
- Study reveals childhood liver cancer risk
- Suspected environmental link to children's cancers
- Teenagers not included in enough cancer trials
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