In its first-ever report on child cancer rates, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) last week revealed that 542 people under 18 years old were in 2018 diagnosed with cancer, the equivalent of nearly 1.5 every day.
While boys were more likely to develop cancer at 308 cases to 234 among girls, leukemia was the most common type for both groups, comprising 30 percent of new diagnoses, the report showed.
The next most-common types were lymphoma, germ cell tumors, central nervous system tumors and carcinoma.
However, children have a better five-year survival rate than adults at 80 percent to about 60 percent, HPA Cancer
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