Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Turner’s syndrome (TS) affects 25-50 per 100,000 females. Germinal cell tumour risk is described for TS with Y-chromosome presence (12%) and gonadal dysgenesis (15-35%) but other cancer risk is less well described. Neuroblastoma accounts for 6% of UK childhood cancer registrations, is the commonest cancer diagnosed in the first year of life and the most common extra-cranial solid tumour in childhood. It carries a UK incidence of 10.9 cases/million children. Pr...