1. Incidence of childhood cancer in Switzerland: the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry
- Author
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Gisela Michel, Shelagh Redmond, N. X. von der Weid, M-P. F. Strippoli, Claudia E. Kuehni, and Marcel Zwahlen
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Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Childhood cancer ,Neoplasms ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Humans ,Registries ,Child ,International research ,Childhood Cancer Registry ,business.industry ,Paediatric oncology ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Incidence ,Cancer ,Infant ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,Cancer registry ,Oncology ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Female ,business ,Switzerland - Abstract
BACKGROUND: This report describes the incidence of childhood cancer in Switzerland, based on the data from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry (SCCR), a national hospital-based cancer registry with very high coverage, founded in 1976 by the Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG). PROCEDURE: Malignancies were coded according to the International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC-3). Incidence rates per 100,000 person-years were calculated for all malignancies and groups of malignancies in Swiss residents less than 15 years of age for the decade 1995-2004. RESULTS: The SCCR annually registered on average 174 new cases of cancer in Swiss residents aged
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- 2007