The epidemiologic features of cancers among children have stimulated abundant
descriptive and analytic investigation. The descriptive work has demonstrated consistent …

Method: The topography, sex distribution and histology of 340 primary CNS tumors in
children up to 17 years of age were investigated and (re-) classified according to the latest …

Abstract The Manchester Children's Tumour Registry data for the period 1954-1977 have
been analysed. The overall incidence of malignant disease in children aged 0-14 years in …

Background: Studies from various countries have found an increasing incidence of
childhood leukemia in recent decades. To characterize time trends in the age-and sex …

Incidence rates of cancer among children aged 0–14 for the period 1970–79 have been
generated with the use of data from the Greater Delaware Valley (GDV) Pediatric Tumor …

Background. The introduction of modern neuro-imaging techniques, as well as various
environmental factors, have been changing the incidence and the proportions of the types of …

A system is described for monitoring the mortality experience of an approximately 10%
sample of the Canadian Labor Force with the use of computerized record linkage to the …

The study goal was to determine the genetic (heritable) contribution to childhood brain
tumors (CBT) which cause nearly one quarter of all childhood cancer deaths. Their etiology …

A population‐based series of 198 children, aged 0 to 16.9 years, with primary brain tumors,
diagnosed from 1970 to 1984, was retrieved from the Swedish Cancer Registry. After review …

A total of 911 Danish children under 15 years of age were treated for an intracranial tumour
in the 25-five year period 1960–1984. All cases were followed up to the end of 1994 or to …