Table 1. Percentage of children with cancer in Great Britain initially referred to a CCLG (formerly UKCCSG) centre by ICCC-3 main diagnostic group and for all groups combined.

Diagnostic groups	1988–1995	1996–2000	2001–2002
I Leukaemia	87	93	95
II Lymphoma	86	91	94
III CNS	65	85	85
IV Sympathetic Nervous system	96	98	98
V Retinoblastoma	88	93	91
VI Renal tumours	94	98	99
VII Hepatic tumours	88	90	97
VIII Bone tumours	74	94	92
IX Soft tissue sarcoma	85	90	85
X Germ cell and gonadal	77	82	90
XI Melanoma and other carcinoma	23	36	35
XII Other	11	35	36
All cancers combined (I–XII)	79	88	90

Results are given for the period corresponding to the ACCIS analyses (data for England and Wales in the geographical comparison of survival was cutoff at 1995, (Sankila et al, 2006), the more recent quinquennium and the most recent period (2001–2002) for which registration data are virtually complete. Source: National Registry of Childhood Tumours, Oxford.