Common pediatric cancers
Data from the surveyed hospitals reported that 169 cases of pediatric
cancers were diagnosed in 2019 and required chemotherapy. Figure 1 shows
the frequency of the reported cancers in both hospitals. As illustrated,
commonest cancer types in both hospitals diagnosed and treated in 2019
included Burkitt’s lymphoma (39, 23%), Lymphoblastic lymphoma (29,
17%), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (20, 12%), and acute lymphoid leukemia (20,
12%). Other cancers, including nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma, and
retinoblastoma, among others were also identified but their frequencies
were low, lower than 10% (Figure 1).