• Question: Can children under 5 get cancer????? Thanks

    Asked by sparkels to Arthur on 13 Nov 2014.
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      Arthur Dyer answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Anybody can get cancer unfortunately.

      you’re less likely to get cancer when you’re young as you need to get a number of mutations in your DNA before cancer starts and these take quite a lot of time to happen so the cancers you get in children are often ones they are born with or very aggressive cancers.

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