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pleas can you all pray for i am 23 and i have a child age 3 and she is batting agens Neuroblastoma is a rare and aggressive childhood cancer that is diagnosed in under 100 children in the UK each year. It is a solid tumour cancer that begins in the nerve tissue in the neck, chest, abdomen, or pelvis but usually originates in the abdomen in the tissue of the adrenal gland. Nearly 70% of those children first diagnosed, have disease that has already metastasized or spread to other parts of the body. The average age at diagnosis is two years old. Prognosis for neuroblastoma is dependent on age, stage of disease, and the molecular biologic and cytogenetic characteristics of the tumour. There is very little known about why neuroblastoma occurs, or about what factors increase the risk for occurrence. It is possible that children may present very vague symptoms, similar to those of the more common non- serious illnesses which makes the disease very difficult to detect. Many parents wonder if they or a doctor should have noticed something sooner, but because this is such a rare disease it is likely that neither a family doctor nor a Paediatrician will ever see a child with neuroblastoma in a lifetime of practice