To mark International Childhood Cancer Day 2024, this new infographic from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) shows the incidence of childhood cancer types by age group.
Leukaemias, lymphomas, and central nervous system tumours are the most common cancer types in children. The proportion of different cancer types changes with each year of age as children get older, and the overall incidence shows two separate peaks, at ages 0–4 years and 15–19 years.
