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Appendix A: Types of Childhood Cancer
Appendix A: Types of Childhood Cancer
Pages 36-40
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. CNS preventive therapy historically included cranial radiation, but due to its long-term deleterious effects, therapy now relies primarily on intrathecal (into the spinal fluid)
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Central Nervous System Tumors and Miscellaneous Intracranial and Intraspinal Neoplasms Description: CNS tumors make up the second largest category of neoplasms in children, accounting for 17 percent of cancers in people under age 20. More than half of all CNS malignancies in children and adolescents are gliomas or astrocytomas (tumors that arise from star-shaped brain cells called astroctyes)
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Overall, the 5-year relative survival for children with sympathetic and allied nervous system tumors has improved, but older children with disseminated disease continue to fare poorly. Lymphomas and Other Reticuloendothelial Neoplasms Description: Lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system)
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The 5-year relative survival rate for soft-tissue sarcomas is about 72 percent for teenagers diagnosed in the 1990s, up from about 60 percent in the 1970s. Malignant Bone Tumors Description: Malignant bone tumors account for 6 percent of childhood cancers (under age 20)
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Germ cell tumors develop from testicular or ovarian cells. The 5-year relative survival for testicular cancers in teenage boys was about 90 percent for those diagnosed in the 1990s, up from about 55 percent in the 1970s.
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