Incidence of childhood cancer in Switzerland: the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry

Michel, G; von der Weid, N X; Zwahlen, M; Redmond, S; Strippoli, M-P F; Kuehni, C E (2008). Incidence of childhood cancer in Switzerland: the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry. Pediatric blood & cancer, 50(1), pp. 46-51. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Liss 10.1002/pbc.21129

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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 <15 years, with a median age at diagnosis of 5.6 years. The crude incidence of childhood cancer in children aged <15 years was 13.5, higher for boys (15.0 per 100,000) than for girls (12.1 per 100,000), and was nearly twice as high in the first 5 years of life (19.3 per 100,000) than in the age group 5 to 14 years (10.8 per 100,000). CONCLUSION: Incidence of childhood cancers in the SCCR was similar to neighbouring countries and to data published by regional cancer registries in Switzerland for the same period, suggesting good completeness of registration. This makes the SCCR a valuable resource for national and international research on childhood cancer.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

UniBE Contributor:

Michel, Gisela, Zwahlen, Marcel, Redmond, Shelagh, Strippoli, Marie-Pierre, Kühni, Claudia

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1545-5009

ISBN:

17226849

Publisher:

Wiley-Liss

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:55

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:22

Publisher DOI:

10.1002/pbc.21129

PubMed ID:

17226849

Web of Science ID:

000251410400008

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.23647

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/23647 (FactScience: 43261)

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