Incidence of childhood cancers

Incidence of childhood cancers About 1,800 cases of childhood (under the age of 15 years) cancer are newly diagnosed every year in Germany. With an overall population of approx. 11 million children under the age of 15 years, this means an annual incidence of about 16.6 per 100,000 children in this age group. The likelihood that a newborn child will develop a malignant disease within the first 15 years of his/her life is 0.2 %. In other words, a malignant cancer is diagnosed in approx. one in 420 children up to their 15th birthday. Since 2009, the beginning of registration of all children and adolescents up to age 18, on average an additional 300 cases aged between 15 and 17 years were registered annually. Within the first 25 years since diagnosis, another cancer (subsequent cancer) was registered for 1,061 patients, which applies to 4.4 % of patients (cumulative incidence).