Table 3 Distribution of the number and percentage of childhood cancers by site and gender from the IACC hospital-based cancer registry, 2012–2016
Total | Male | Female | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cancer Site | No | % | No | % | No | % |
Connective and Soft Tissue | 41 | 7.6 | 25 | 8.3 | 16 | 6.6 |
Wilms’ Tumour | 141 | 26.0 | 71 | 23.5 | 70 | 29.0 |
Retinoblastoma | 121 | 22.3 | 61 | 20.2 | 60 | 24.9 |
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma | 88 | 16.2 | 62 | 20.5 | 26 | 10.8 |
Leukaemia | 47 | 8.7 | 27 | 8.9 | 20 | 8.3 |
Other and Unspecified Cancers | 105 | 19.3 | 56 | 18.5 | 49 | 20.3 |
All cancers, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer | 543 | 100.0 | 302 | 100.0 | 241 | 100.0 |