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Childhood Cancer Epidemiology

 

M.Tevfik Dorak, MD PhD

 

Recent Publications in Childhood Cancer Epidemiology

Support for Dorak Hypothesis is presented (Gustafsson, 2007)

Time Trends in Childhood Cancer:

USA (Linabery & Ross, 2008, CDC-MMWR, 2007); UK (Shah & Coleman, 2007);

Australia (Milne, 2008); Scandinavia (Svendsen, 2007); Germany (Spix, 2007)

Maule et al: Risk of Second Malignant Neoplasms after Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma (2007)

Tower & Spector: The Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia with a Focus on Birth Weight and Diet (2007)

COG Reports: Ross & Olshan, 2004; Spector, 2005; Mehta, 2006a & 2006b; Spector, 2007

UKCCS Reports: Gilham, 2005; Roman, 2005; Ansell, 2005; Roman, 2007 (see also Dorak, 2007)

EHP Jan 2007: An Update on Cancer Cluster Activities at the CDC (Kingsley, 2007; O’Connor, 2007)

HuGE Net review in childhood cancer epidemiology: HFE and Childhood Leukemia

Studies by Clavel et al (France): List from PubMed

Automated Medline Search for 'childhood cancer epidemiology'

 

(References in italics are listed at the end of the document)

 

Childhood Cancer Statistics

In the US, the incidence of childhood cancer overall is approximately 125 per million persons (childhood is usually defined as 0-14 years of age). Between 1 in 600 and 1 in 500 children in Europe develop a malignant disease before the age of 15 years (Parkin et al, 1998). The total incidence of childhood cancer varies rather little between different regions of the world, with cumulative risk to age 15 nearly always in the range 1.0 -2.5 per thousand (Stiller & Pa