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About 14,690 children and adolescents under 20 years of age are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. Around 380 of those children and adolescents are from Michigan. Research improvements in health care have led to major decreases in U.S. childhood cancer death rates in the last few decades. Since 1985, the childhood cancer death rate in Michigan has decreased by over 60%.
Leukemias – cancers of the blood and bone marrow – are the most common types of childhood cancers. The most common types of leukemia diagnosed in children are Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). The second most common types of childhood cancers are brain and spinal cord tumors.
Childhood cancer data are available on the MiTracking Data Portal for:
Finding the cause of childhood cancers is difficult. Adult cancer is likely due to lifestyle factors, but can also be due to genetics, carcinogens, and other environmental factors. Childhood cancer is more likely due to DNA changes early in life, sometimes even before birth. The reason for these changes is not known.
For more information, visit American Cancer Society - Risk Factors and Causes of Childhood Cancer.
Research into childhood cancers continues to work toward finding their causes and the best treatment choices. Little is known about what can be done to keep childhood cancers from happening, making it difficult to give recommendations about preventing them. It is extremely unlikely that there is anything that can be done to keep children from getting cancer. Only about 5 percent of cancers in children are caused by a genetic mutation passed from parents to their children. Also, very few environmental factors have been linked with these cancers since it is difficult to figure out what children have come in contact with during their early development.
For more information, visit American Cancer Society - Can Childhood Cancers Be Prevented?
Common Symptoms include:
It is more likely that these symptoms are from something other than cancer such as injury or infection. Other symptoms are possible depending on the type of cancer. If your child has any of these symptoms, let your doctor know.
For more information, please visit American Cancer Society - Finding Cancer in Children.
Treating cancer will depend on the type and stage of cancer.
Common treatments are:
For more information, visit National Cancer Institute - Childhood Cancers.
Data from the Michigan Cancer Surveillance Program (MCSP) were used to create this dataset through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics (DVRHS). For additional information, visit the Michigan Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics.
For more data information, visit:
National Environmental Public Health Tracking (Tracking Program)
Inside MDHHS Cancer Statistics
Michigan Cancer Surveillance Program Cancer Statistics
Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
Cancer in Children and Adolescents
Contact Georgia Spivak at spivakg@michigan.gov for potential cancer clusters or dataset information.
