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What are some of the more common cancers that affect children?
11 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
See list: •leukemia, •brain and other nervous system tumors •neuroblastoma, •wilms tumor, •lymphoma •rhabdomyosarcoma, •retinoblastoma, •bone cancer.
Answered 4/21/2012
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Leukemia is the most: Common; followed by central nervous neoplasms. The others are less common: lymphoma (hd and non-hd), wilm's of kidney, retinoblastom of the eye, neuroblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, ewings sarcoma, hepatoblastoma, dysgerminomas...There may be more, but they are less common than these!
Answered 8/4/2012
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