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Socioeconomic status and global variations in the incidence of neuroblastoma: call for support of population‐based cancer registries in low‐middle–income countries
Author(s) -
Kamihara Junne,
Ma Clement,
Fuentes Alabi Soad Linneth,
Garrido Claudia,
Frazier A. Lindsay,
RodriguezGalindo Carlos,
Orjuela Manuela A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pediatric blood and cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.116
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1545-5017
pISSN - 1545-5009
DOI - 10.1002/pbc.26244
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , incidence (geometry) , medicine , demography , population , human development index , etiology , environmental health , pathology , economic growth , human development (humanity) , physics , sociology , optics , economics
Global variations in the incidence of pediatric cancers have been described; however, the causes of such differences are not known. We investigated the relationship between the incidence of embryonal tumors and human development index on a global scale. Increasing incidence of neuroblastoma correlates significantly with an increasing index of human development, with greater incidence among countries with high socioeconomic development, in apparent contrast to the incidence of retinoblastoma. While more data are needed to corroborate this observation, our findings suggest new avenues for etiological research and serve as a call for support of population‐based cancer registries in low–middle‐income countries.