More than 1,200 children were diagnosed with some form of cancer over a 10 year period in Scotland, statistics have revealed.
From 2007 to 2016, 1,275 people aged 14 or under were recorded as having the disease and slightly more of those, 53%, were boys.
For children diagnosed between 2007 and 2011, the one-year survival rate stood at 92%, rising to over 93% by 2012 to 2016, and five-year survival figures were around 84%.
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