Cancer is relatively rare in childhood, but it contributes considerably to childhood mortality,
years of life lost per person and late effects in survivors. Large populations need to be …

Population-based cancer registration plays a key role in malignant disease surveillance by
providing data needed to calculate incidence, survival, cancer cluster investigations and …

This special issue contains 18 articles describing population-based analyses of incidence
and survival for cancer among children and adolescents in Europe over the period 1978 …

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 …

Background A deceleration in the increase in cancer incidence in children and adolescents
has been reported in several national and regional studies in Europe. Based on a large …

Abstract The World Health Organization recently launched the Global Initiative for Childhood
Cancer aiming to substantially increase survival among children with cancer by 2030. The …

Background Cancer is a major cause of death in children worldwide, and the recorded
incidence tends to increase with time. Internationally comparable data on childhood cancer …

This study analyses survival in 40,392 children (age 0–14 years) and 30,187
adolescents/young adults (age 15–24 years) diagnosed with cancer between 1995 and …

In collaboration with 62 population-based cancer registries contributing to the Automated
Childhood Cancer Information System (ACCIS), we built a database to study incidence and …

Background Cancer is rare before age 20 years. We aimed to use the European database of
childhood and adolescent cancer cases, within the Automated Childhood Cancer …