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Cancer Epidemiology
European study highlights increase in childhood cancer over past 3 decades
December 28th, 2004
Research from 19 European countries documents how childhood cancer, while still rare, has been slowly increasing over the past 3 decades. Cancer is rare before age 20 years. Eva Steliarova-Foucher (International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France) and colleagues used the large European database of childhood and adolescent cancer cases to estimate patterns and trends of incidence and survival within Europe. Their findings were published in the December 11, 2004, issue of the Lancet. The investigators obtained high-quality data from 63 European population-based cancer registries in 19 European countries. Analysis of 113,000 cancers in...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-12-28)
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