Neuroblastoma is a solid cancerous tumor that usually originates in the tissues of the adrenal gland, which is located in the abdomen near the kidneys.  Tumors develop in the nerve tissue in the chest, neck, or pelvis.  It is a fourth most common cancer that occurs in children under the age of 2-5 years, sometimes the disease is found the present birth, but is usually not noticed until later.

Symptoms:

• Pain - from cancer that has spread to the bone
• Paralysis - may result from compression of the spinal cord.
• Fever - anemia, and high blood pressure occur occasionally.
• Diarrhea

Treatments 

• Surgery (removing the tumor in an operation).
  - is used whenever possible, to remove as much of the cancer as possible, and can generally cure the disease if the cancer has not spread to other areas of the body
• Radiation therapy (using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells).  
  - is often used after surgery; high-energy rays (radiation) are used to kill as many of the remaining cancer cells as possible.
• Chemotherapy (using drugs to kill cancer cells).  
  - (called adjuvant chemotherapy) may also be used after surgery to kill remaining cells
• Bone marrow transplantation (replacing the patient's bone marrow cells with those from a healthy person).
  - is used to replace bone marrow cells killed by radiation or chemotherapy. In some cases the patient's own bone marrow is removed prior to treatment and saved for transplantation later.