Childhood cancers are fortunately rare, but among them, neuroblastoma is a special case, accounting for 7 percent of all childhood cancers, but 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths. It typically occurs as a solid tumor in the abdomen, but also in the neck, chest, and pelvis, developing in the network of the body’s sympathetic nervous system. Neuroblastoma is what physicians call a heterogeneous disease; its name includes subtypes of disease that behave very differently. [click link for full article]