Care of Child with Cancer

Every cell in the body has a system that controls how it grows, how it interacts with other cells, and how long it lives. Sometimes, cells lose that control and grow in a way that the body can no longer control. This is called cancer.

The most common cancers of children are:

• Leukemia.
• Brain and spinal cord tumors.
• Neuroblastoma.
• Wilms tumor.
• Lymphoma (including both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin)
• Rhabdomyosarcoma.
• Retinoblastoma.
• Bone cancer (including osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma)