Rare Tumors: Opportunities and challenges from the Children’s Oncology Group perspective

While all childhood cancers are rare, tumors that particularly infrequent or underrepresented within pediatrics studied under the umbrella of Children’s Oncology Group Rare Tumor committee, divided into Retinoblastoma and Infrequent subcommittees. The subcommittee has traditionally included an emphasis on globally rare such as adrenocortical carcinoma, nasopharyngeal those in young children, despite being common adolescents adults, colorectal thyroid melanoma. Pleuropulmonary blastoma, gonadal stromal tumors, pancreatic including pancreatoblastoma, gastrointestinal tumor, nonmelanoma skin cancers, neuroendocrine desmoplastic small round cell well other carcinomas also heading committee. substantial challenges exist inclusion global collaboration remain key priorities to ensure high quality research advance care.