Table 1.
Overview of patients’ characteristics of pediatric cancer types studied in the unselected cohort of 160 patients.
| Number of cases (Frequency) | |
|---|---|
| Sex | |
| Male | 98 (61.2%) |
| Female | 62 (38.8%) |
| Age at diagnosis | |
| 0–5 yrs | 97 (60.6%) |
| 6–10 yrs | 28 (17.5%) |
| 11–15 yrs | 28 (17.5%) |
| 16–18 yrs | 7 (4.4%) |
| Diagnosis | |
| Leukemia | 59 (36.9%) |
| B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 39 |
| T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 9 |
| Acute myeloid leukemia | 11 |
| Brain Tumor | 32 (20.0%) |
| Medulloblastoma | 9 |
| Pilocytic astrocytoma | 6 |
| Glioblastoma | 6 |
| Ependymoma | 2 |
| Congential brain tumor | 2 |
| Primitive neuroectodermal tumor | 1 |
| Plexuscarcinoma | 1 |
| Glioma | 1 |
| Ganglioma | 1 |
| Embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes | 1 |
| Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor | 1 |
| Astrocytoma | 1 |
| Solid tumor | 25 (15.6%) |
| Rhabdomyosarcoma | 12 |
| Ewing Sarcoma | 6 |
| Osteosarcoma | 2 |
| Germcell tumor | 2 |
| Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney | 2 |
| Epithelioid sarcoma | 1 |
| Lymphoma | 23 (14.4%) |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 11 |
| Burkitt lymphoma | 4 |
| T-cell lymphoma | 3 |
| Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma | 3 |
| Anaplastic large cell lymphoma | 2 |
| Non-CNS embryonal tumor | 21 (13.1%) |
| Neuroblastoma | 11 |
| Nephroblastoma | 7 |
| Hepatoblastoma | 3 |
yrs years