Childhood Cancer - 5 Year Survival Rates
Overall, 80% of childhood cancer cases can be successfully treated.
Researchers and physicians have achieved great success in treating and saving children who have cancer. But the numbers below also reveal the work that remains.
Overall, four out of five children diagnosed with cancer today can be successfully treated.
Children’s Cancer Research Fund is especially dedicated to helping researchers find new treatments for the 20 percent of children for whom conventional treatments fail.
- Retinoblastoma (eye) - 96%
- Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (lymphatic system) - 93%
- Wilms’ (kidney) - 91%
- Carcinomas (skin & other epithelial tissue) - 90%
- Germ Cell (gonads) - 89%
- Lymphoid Leukemia (blood) - 80%
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma - 76%
- Central Nervous System (brain & spine) - 69%
- Neuroblastoma - 66%
Rhabdomyosarcoma (soft tissue) - 64% - Osteosarcoma (bone) - 64%
Hepatoblastoma (liver) - 62% - Ewing’s sarcoma (bone) - 62%
SOURCE: International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC): United States SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2002, National Cancer Institute, 2002.
