Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2025: These 5 types of cancer are common in children, identify them with these symptoms

News Topical, Digital Desk : It is natural to get scared on hearing the word cancer, especially when it is related to children (Childhood Cancer). Cancer is less common in children than in adults, but still this disease is one of the major causes of diseases and deaths in childhood.

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated every year in the month of September to make people aware about this. Actually, childhood cancer is the cancer that occurs from birth to the age of 14 years. It is quite different from the cancer that occurs in adults. Let us know about the five most common cancers in childhood (Common Cancer Among Children) and their symptoms.

Leukemia

Leukemia is the most common cancer in children, which begins in the blood and bone marrow. In this, the body starts producing white blood cells in abnormal and excessive numbers.

• Symptoms - Fatigue, weakness and paleness, frequent fevers and infections, pain in the bones and joints, easy bruising or bleeding,  loss of appetite and weight loss .

Lymphoma

This cancer begins in the lymphatic system, which is the body's immune system. It affects the lymph nodes.

• Symptoms - painless, enlarged lumps (swollen lymph nodes) in the neck, armpits or groin, fever, sweating (especially at night), weight loss, tiredness, and cough or shortness of breath.

Brain and spinal cord tumors

These are the most common of the solid tumors in children. These tumors can occur in different parts of the brain or spinal cord.

• Symptoms - headache (especially better in the morning or after vomiting), vomiting or nausea, problems with seeing, hearing, or speaking, trouble walking or balancing, mood or behavior changes, seizures.

osteosarcoma

It is a bone cancer that usually develops in the long bones of children and teens.

• Symptoms - Pain in the affected bone (which may worsen at night or during physical activity), swelling or redness around the bone,  easy fractures of the bone , difficulty walking if the tumor is in the leg.

Neuroblastoma

This cancer begins in immature cells of the body's sympathetic nervous system. It often develops in the adrenal glands or nerves in the abdomen or chest.

• Symptoms - Abdominal pain or feeling of a lump in the stomach (which may cause loss of appetite), bone pain, fever, bruising around the eyes or changes in the eyes, blue-purple patches on the skin.

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