6^th Euro Oncology and Cancer Summit

Neonatal and Pediatric Oncology

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Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that deals with the medical care of newborn infants, especially the premature or ill newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in Neonatal Intensive Care units (NICUs). The chief patients of Neonatologists are newborn infants who are ill or require special medical care due to  intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations (birth defects), sepsis, prematurity,  low birth weight, pulmonary hypoplasia or birth asphyxia.

Pediatric Oncology is a branch of medicine deals with diagnosis and treatment of Cancer in Children. Childhood Cancer (also known as pediatric cancer) is Cancer in a child. In the United States, randomly adopted standard of the ages used are 0-14 years is up to 14 years 11.9 months of age. However, the definition of Childhood Cancer includes adolescents between 15-19 years old. Globally it is estimated that Childhood Cancer has an incidence of more than 175,000 per year and a mortality rate of approximately 96,000 per year.