Figure 2.

Age-standardised 5-year net survival (%) for children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) during 1995–2009

The number of countries for which survival estimates are shown in each box-plot is given in parentheses. Box-plots in light blue are for ALL (group Ia1 according to the third edition of the International Classification of Childhood Cancer [ICCC-3]), and dark blue for AML (ICCC-3 group Ib). The vertical line inside each box denotes the median survival value, and the box shows the IQR between the lower and upper quartiles. The extreme limits of the box-plot are 1·5 times the IQR below the lower quartile and above the upper quartile. Open circles indicate outlier values, outside this range Survival estimates for African countries are not shown because they were either not standardised or less reliable.