Every year in Canada, cancer is diagnosed in about 850 children (143 per million in 2004)
between birth and 14 years of age. 1 The incidence is generally highest during the first 5 …

Aim: To determine current rates of childhood cancer mortality at a national level for Australia
and to evaluate recent trends. Methods: Using population-based data from the Australian …

Introduction: Cancer is the leading cause of disease-related death in children aged 1 to 14
years in Canada. Despite the importance to public health of childhood cancer, there have …

Cancer is diagnosed in about 140 per million children in Britain each year. There is a 1 in
500 chance that a child will be affected in the first 15 years of life, the most frequently …

Background: There are few population-based childhood cancer registries in the world
containing stage and treatment data. Methods: Data from the population-based Australian …

Abstract The French National Registry of Childhood Haematopoietic Malignancies and the
French National Registry of Childhood Solid Tumours jointly ensure the surveillance of …

Accounting for less than 1% of all malignancies diagnosed worldwide, cancer in children
under 15 years of age is rare, and the spectrum of neoplasms that occur tend to differ in …

In this article, the American Cancer Society provides estimates of the number of new cancer
cases and deaths for children and adolescents in the United States and summarizes the …

Methods We obtained cancer incidence data from the July 2009 version of the Canadian
Cancer Registry, a dynamic, population-based database maintained by Statistics Canada …

Background: Population-based studies of childhood cancer incidence, survival and mortality
make an important contribution to monitoring the successful implementation of new …