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The international incidence of childhood cancer
Author(s) -
Parkin D. M.,
Stiller C. A.,
Draper G. J.,
Bieber C. A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910420408
Subject(s) - international agency , incidence (geometry) , childhood cancer , etiology , ethnic group , cancer , medicine , cancer incidence , agency (philosophy) , demography , relative risk , environmental health , pediatrics , pathology , political science , confidence interval , philosophy , physics , epistemology , sociology , law , optics
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has coordinated a worldwide study of the incidence of cancer in childhood. Contributors from over 50 countries have provided data. This paper presents a summary of some of the major results. The incidence rates and relative frequencies of childhood cancers are described according to I2 diagnostic groups, defined mainly in terms of tumour morphology. Variations in the risk of those tumours between different countries and different ethnic groups provide important information on the relative importance of environmental and genetic factors in their aetiology.