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Introduction: Childhood cancer is a small fraction of the global cancer burden, yet for children with cancer and their families, it could be distressing. Cancers in children could be incorporated as one of the childhood killer diseases in developing countries. The aim of this study is to evaluate the demographic and pathologic characteristics of childhood tumours in Umuahia. South- East Nigeria from 2000-2020.
Methodology: The Operative records, histology request and report forms were studied and the clinical-pathologic information were retrieved from 2000 to 2020 and analysed using SPSS version 20.0 Results: A total of 100 cases of malignant diseases of children were clinically diagnosed and histologically confirmed. The mean age of the patients were 8 years with age range of 1 to 17 years. The male to female ratio was 1:1. The peak age of incidence in the 1-5 age groups which accounted for 50 patients (50%). Wilm’s tumour was the commonest 50, Rhabdomyosarcoma 20 cases, Neuroblastoma 10cases, Osteosarcoma 10cases, Teratomas 10 cases.
Conclusion: childhood cancer is in our environment. However, late presentation, ignorance, poverty leads to poor outcome.

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