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Cancer is rare in childhood compared with older age groups, affecting approximately 1 in 600 children during the first 15 years of life. However, some tumours are so rare that even paediatric oncologists may only encounter them once in their lifetime practice. Any definition of ‘rare’ is bound to be arbitrary, but a suggested definition of rare childhood cancers are those categories in the International Classification of Childhood Cancer [third edition (ICCC-3)], that have an age-standardised annual incidence of less than 1 per million children in the UK, excluding tumours of unspecified morphology (Steliarova-Foucher et al. 2005).
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Brennan, B. (2012). The United Kingdom. In: Schneider, D., Brecht, I., Olson, T., Ferrari, A. (eds) Rare Tumors In Children and Adolescents. Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04197-6_11
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