Children's cancers information centre

General

• Children's cancers
• Incidence of different cancers
• Some terms explained
• UKCCSG

Causes & diagnosis

• Causes
• Diagnosis
• Staging
• Tests

Treatment

• Staff involved
• Hospital and ward life
• Treatment
• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiotherapy
• Bone marrow or stem cell transplant
• Central lines
• Long-term side effects

Living with cancer

• Day-to-day concerns
• Effects on family
• After treatment

Clinical trials

• Research: clinical trials

Types of children's cancers

• Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
• Acute myeloid leukaemia
• Brain tumours
• Ewing's sarcoma
• Germ cell tumours
• Hodgkin lymphoma
• Langerhans cell histiocytocis
• Liver tumours
• Neuroblastoma
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Osteosarcoma
• Rare tumours
• Retinoblastoma
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Wilms' tumour