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Possible health risks >
Statistics on Childhood Cancer
Childhood cancer is usually defined as cancer diagnosed before
age 15.
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All childhood cancer |
Childhood leukaemia |
The small print |
| Number of cases per year |
1416 |
454 |
Great Britain 1989-1998, rates standardised to
a uniform population |
| Average annual incidence rate |
131 per million |
42 per million |
| Average annual risk |
1 in 7,600 |
1 in 24,000 |
| Annual risk for ages 1-4, the peak years |
1 in 5,500 |
1 in 13,000 |
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| Total childhood risk |
1 in 500 |
1 in 1600 |
0-14 years of age, a total of 15 years |
| Survival rate |
73% |
77% |
Survival for 5 years after diagnosis; some patients will still
die after this |
| Deaths per year |
352 |
114 |
Great Britain 1997-2001 |
- The boy: girl ratio is about 1.2 for all cancers and 1.3 for
leukaemia
- Leukaemias make up 32% of childhood cancer cases. The next
most common cancer is brain and spinal tumours at 24%.
These figures come from the CancerStats 
monograph
published by Cancer Research UK. The chapter on childhood cancers
was written by the
Childhood Cancer
Research Group in Oxford. Some of these statistics are also available online.
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