- Neuroblastoma is a common and often difficult to treat cancer, the most common cancer in infancy. (UCSF)
- In the United States, about 600 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma each year. (UCSF)
- It is the most common tumor found in children younger than 1 year of age.
- Childhood cancer is the number one disease killer in children.
- Neuroblastoma is the most common extra cranial solid tumor cancer in children.
- Every 16 hours a child with neuroblastoma dies.
- There is no known cure for relapsed neuroblastoma.
- Nearly 70% of those children first diagnosed with neuroblastoma have disease that has already metastasized or spread to other parts of the body. When disease has spread at diagnosis and a child is over the age of 2, there is less than a 30% chance of survival.
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