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Epidemiology

• ES is nonetheless an infrequent cancer, with approximately 250-300 new cases diagnosed in patients < 20 yrs of age per year in North America • Incidence is low before age of 5 yrs: 0.6 per million, but progressively rises towards puberty (peak rate of 5 per million) • The most common age of diagnosis is the 2 nd decade of life (65%) • Males > Females (1.3 : 1)