TABLE 3.

Leukemia Cases Among Children Aged Less Than 15 Years, by Age and Sex: Basrah, Iraq, 2006

	Age < 5 Years			Age 5–9 Years			Age 10–14 Years
Type of leukemia	Male, No. of cases	Female, No. of Cases	Total No. of Cases	Male, No. of cases	Female, No. of Cases	Total No. of Cases	Male, No. of cases	Female, No. of Cases	Total No. of Cases	Total No. of Cases (%)
Leukemia
ALL	21	18	39	18	10	28	9	4	13	80 (82)a
AML	0	3	3	3	4	7	2	1	3	13 (13)a
CML	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	4 (4)a
Total	24	21	45	21	15	36	11	5	16	97 (47)b
Other cancer	33	22	55	20	20	40	13	6	19	114 (53)b
Total cancer			100			76			37	211

Note. ALL = acute lymphoblastic leukemia; AML = acute myeloid leukemia; CML = chronic myeloid leukemia.

Source. Case data collected from Basrah's Ibn Ghazwan Maternal and Child Hospital pediatric cancer registry, affiliated with the University of Basrah.

^aPercent of total leukemia.

^bPercent of total cancer.