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Children and young people who are febrile have direct access back to their respective cancer centre.

Children and adolescents with cancer are more at risk of infections because of the disease itself and also because of the treatment, both of which can affect the immune system.

Approximately 60% of survivors will have a problem or late effect related to their treatment. For some, these can require minimum interventions, but for others it may be far greater.

Mucositis, or inflammation of the mucous membranes (linings of the mouth and gut), is a common side-effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy.

The aim of this section is to give you an overview of nutrition specifically for children and adolescents with cancer and direct you to further information and resources.

The page provides list of risk factors associated with steroid induced myopathy and describes the pathophysiology. It will discuss the clinical presentation of patients suffering from steroid-induced myopathy and includes a list of common signs and symptoms.

Children and adolescents receive doses of up to 10mg/m² of steroids for 14 days on certain leukaemia and lymphoma protocols and patients with brain tumours also may have a lot of steroids.

In the UK, only 1 in every 500 children under 15 develops a cancer. About 1,600 children (up to the age of 15) in the UK are diagnosed with cancer each year.

An overview of the main types of cancer affecting children and young people

A number of diagnostic investigations (tests and scans) may be carried out to diagnose a childhood cancer, and to determine the stage (the size of the tumour and whether or not it has spread beyond where it started in the body) of the cancer.