The most common cancers suffered by children are leukemia, brain cancer and lymphosarcoma. Yet because the causes for these cancers are not yet clear and there is so far no evidence to support an environmental connection, the rise of cancer rates among children might simply be a result of advances in diagnosis.
兒童癌症以血癌、腦瘤、淋巴腫瘤為主，由於目前成因未明，並無證據顯示兒童癌症的出現與環境的危害有關，也有可能是醫療診斷精進的結果。