Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer. It is the most common cancer diagnosed in the first year of life and accounts for around 15% of cancer deaths in children.

• Approximately 100 new cases of neuroblastoma are diagnosed every year in the UK
• Of these babies and children, around 50 - approximately half - will have high risk disease
• The long term survival rate for high risk neuroblastoma patients remains less than 40%, which is around half the average survival rate for childhood cancers

Neuroblastoma is the commonest 'solid' cancer diagnosed in babies and children.