Chilhood Cancer: Signs and symptoms Part 3

• Neuroblastoma (6%), a cancer of the nervous system that is most common in children younger than 5 years of age and usually appears as a swelling in the abdomen
• Wilms tumor (5%), a kidney cancer that may be recognized by a swelling or lump in the abdomen
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (4%) and Hodgkin lymphoma (4%), which affect lymph nodes but may involve the bone marrow and other organs, and may cause swelling of lymph nodes in the neck, armpit, or groin, as well as weakness and fever
• Rhabdomyosarcoma (3%), a soft tissue sarcoma that can occur in the head and neck, genitourinary area, trunk, and extremities, and may cause pain and/or a mass or swelling
• Osteosarcoma (3%), a bone cancer that most often occurs in adolescents and commonly appears as sporadic pain in the affected bone that may worsen at night or with activity, with eventual progression to local swelling
• Retinoblastoma (2%), an eye cancer that usually occurs in children younger than 5 years of age and is typically recognized because of discoloration behind the pupil
• Ewing sarcoma (1%), another type of cancer that usually
arises in bone, is most common in adolescents, and typically appears as pain at the tumor site.