Key Statistics for Ewing Sarcoma
Learn about key statistics for Ewing sarcoma, including how common it is and who is most affected.
How common is Ewing sarcoma?
Ewing sarcoma is a rare tumor of the tissues that normally make up bone and soft tissue in the body.
About 1% of all childhood cancers are Ewing tumors. About 200 children and teens are diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in the United States each year.
Who is most likely to develop Ewing sarcoma?
Most Ewing tumors develop in teenagers, but they can also occur in younger children, as well as in adults, mainly in their 20s and 30s. Younger people are more likely to have tumors that grow from bones, while Ewing tumors in adults are more likely to develop outside the bones, called extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma.
Ewing sarcoma is more common in males than females and seems to occur more often in non-Hispanic White people and in American Indian and Alaska Native people. This disease is very rare among African Americans.
Learn more
Survival statistics for these tumors are discussed in Survival Rates for Ewing Tumors, by Stage.
Visit the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics Center for more key cancer statistics.
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