The 10 deadliest cancers that affect kids – and how to spot the signs in your child
Increasingly, kids are surviving cancer but some are much more dangerous than others.
HAVING cancer at any age can be devasting - but it's another level of tragedy when it happens to children.
Around 1,400 kids are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK, with boys being more at risk than girls.
In the cases of certain cancers, boys are more than twice as likely as girls to develop it.
According to , 250 kids in the UK aged up to 14 die from cancer every year, with another 50 teens (15-19) dying from cancers diagnosed before their 15th birthday.
The UK actually has the lowest rate of childhood cancer in Europe, and is one of the lowest of all developed Western countries.
Australia and the US, however, have some of the highest rates and no one knows exactly why.
2. Leukaemia
Brain and blood cancers make up over half of childhood cancers, so the chances of dying from the others is very small.
These are the seven other most common:
4. Wilms tumour
6. Rhabdomyosarcoma
7. Bone cancer
9. Retinoblastoma
While cancer is obviously pretty scary, childhood cancers tend to have a much better prognosis than adult ones, with 82 per cent surviving more than five years.
Thanks to investment in research and treatment, the survival rate has increased dramatically over the past 50 years.
In fact, four out of five young cancer patients can now be successfully treated.
According to , there are more than 35,000 survivors of childhood cancer alive in the UK - and that number is growing by around 1,300 per year.
Last week, we revealed the ten most deadly cancers in men and women
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