Cancer Care

Common Pediatric Cancers

Children can get cancer in the same parts of the body as adults do, but cancers don't always act like or get treated like adult cancer. Childhood cancers can occur suddenly; however, they have a high rate of cure.

Some types of cancer are more common in children. The most common form of childhood cancer is leukemia. Leukemia is cancer of the blood.

In addition to leukemia, these are other common cancers found in children:

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia Acute myeloid leukemia Brain tumors Childhood lymphomas Ewing's sarcomas Extracranial germ cell tumor Hodgkin's disease Hepatoblastomas Liver cancer

Neuroblastomas Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Retinoblastoma Rhabdomyosarcomas Soft tissue sarcoma Wilms' tumor & other childhood kidney tumors

Learn more about the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology