Abstract:
This study aims to provide knowledge concerning childhood cancers in
Sudan. An overview of the most common type of malignancies for
different age groups and the correlation between the disease and the
relation between the children parents.
Data were collected from records of Borg Al-Amal Hospital in
Khartoum city for a sample of 300 children of age less than 15 year
during the year (2013). The cancers cases were classified according to
the type of cancers, age, gender and familial relation between the
parents.
Data were analyzed and the study come to the following results: there
are a correlation between certain cancers with the close relation
between the parents mainly in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, brain
cancers, acute myeloid leukemia and retinoblastoma. The ratio of
cancer incidence in males to females is 4:3.
