Childhood cancers

Stuart E. Siegel, MD Director, Children's Center For Cancer & Blood Disease, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, explains what the most common childhood cancers are
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The cancers you see in children are actually somewhat different than we used to seeing in adults. In adults you are probably used to hearing about breast cancer, and lung cancer, or colon cancer, or things like this. In children we see different kinds of cancer. Leukemia and brain tumors are two most common types of cancer we see in children. Actually, account to just about 50% of all the childhood cancer. The rest of the tumors we see are a group of solid tumors, many of which develop in embryonic tissues. That means in the tissues that forms the fetus something goes wrong, and they eventuate in a cancer. That doesn't mean they were inherited. But, something goes wrong during the develop of the fetus. So, we see things like sarcomas, we also see lymphomas. And, we see unusual liver tumors that we don't see in adults. We see kidney cancers that's different than the kidney cancer we see in adults. So, a group of these solid tumors that make up the remaining of the 50%.

Stuart E. Siegel, MD Director, Children's Center For Cancer & Blood Disease, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, explains what the most common childhood cancers are

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Stuart E. Siegel, MD

Director, Children’s Center for Cancer & Blood Diseases, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Before recently shifting his focus to international medicine, Stuart Siegel, MD, was Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology for 35 years and the founding director of the the Children’s Center for Cancer & Blood Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Professor and Head of the Division of Hematology-Oncology Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California. He remains a leader in supportive care and research in pediatric oncology, with a special focus on neuroblastoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Ewing Sarcoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumors. From developing the first pediatric protective environment in 1971 for children undergoing intensive chemotherapy, to pioneering current efforts to develop academic and clinical care programs nationally and locally for adolescents and young adults with cancer, Dr. Siegel’s contributions have revolutionized the field of pediatric oncology. Dr. Siegel has been honored for his work by the American Cancer Society, Children Foundation, the Cancer Foundation, the Chase Foundation, Padres Contra El Cancer, the Israel Cancer Research Fund and Ronald McDonald House Charities, where he is a member of the National Board, and has consistently been listed among the nation’s top doctors in such publications asAmerica’s Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America. He is a father of one son, Joshua; grandfather of David and Elijah; and lives in Pacific Palisades with his wife of seven years.

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The cancers you see in children are actually somewhat different than we used to seeing in adults. In adults you are probably used to hearing about breast cancer, and lung cancer, or colon cancer, or things like this. In children we see different kinds of cancer. Leukemia and brain tumors are two most common types of cancer we see in children. Actually, account to just about 50% of all the childhood cancer. The rest of the tumors we see are a group of solid tumors, many of which develop in embryonic tissues. That means in the tissues that forms the fetus something goes wrong, and they eventuate in a cancer. That doesn't mean they were inherited. But, something goes wrong during the develop of the fetus. So, we see things like sarcomas, we also see lymphomas. And, we see unusual liver tumors that we don't see in adults. We see kidney cancers that's different than the kidney cancer we see in adults. So, a group of these solid tumors that make up the remaining of the 50%.