Table 3.
Numbers of cases and age-standardised incidence of tumours in children aged 0–14 years, 2001–10, by main diagnostic group
|
Leukaemia |
Lymphomas |
CNS tumours |
Sympathetic nervous system |
Retinoblastoma |
Renal tumours |
Hepatic tumours |
Bone tumours |
Soft tissue sarcomas |
Germ cell and gonadal tumours |
Epithelial tumours and melanoma |
Other and unspecified |
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| n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | n | WSR | ||
| North Africa | 506 | 28·2 | 473 | 25·6 | 304 | 16·5 | 142 | 8·8 | 33 | 2·2 | 104 | 6·4 | 16 | 1·0 | 111 | 5·3 | 132 | 7·2 | 40 | 2·2 | 86 | 4·1 | 64 | 3·5 | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 2060 | 12·5 | 1664 | 9·8 | 1041 | 6·3 | 411 | 2·7 | 563 | 3·7 | 1031 | 6·7 | 165 | 1·0 | 385 | 2·1 | 1262 | 7·6 | 265 | 1·6 | 230 | 1·3 | 172 | 1·0 | |
| Central America and Caribbean | 2145 | 45·5 | 920 | 18·0 | 1023 | 21·1 | 277 | 6·6 | 155 | 3·8 | 292 | 6·7 | 88 | 2·0 | 294 | 5·2 | 337 | 6·9 | 239 | 4·7 | 283 | 5·1 | 170 | 3·5 | |
| South America | 6734 | 49·8 | 2319 | 16·2 | 3272 | 23·7 | 969 | 7·8 | 655 | 5·4 | 845 | 6·7 | 265 | 2·1 | 891 | 5·8 | 1062 | 7·7 | 634 | 4·6 | 425 | 2·8 | 180 | 1·3 | |
| Canada | 2780 | 55·5 | 949 | 16·2 | 1683 | 31·8 | 674 | 14·9 | 215 | 4·9 | 435 | 9·3 | 142 | 3·0 | 368 | 6·0 | 545 | 10·1 | 274 | 5·0 | 373 | 6·1 | 113 | 2·2 | |
| USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Native Americans | 297 | 31·5 | 76 | 7·5 | 140 | 14·4 | 49 | 5·7 | 15 | 1·8 | 49 | 5·7 | 19 | 2·2 | 41 | 3·7 | 45 | 4·6 | 21 | 2·0 | 34 | 3·2 | 4 | 0·4 | |
| Asian and Pacific Islanders | 1294 | 43·9 | 378 | 12·1 | 596 | 19·9 | 214 | 7·7 | 107 | 3·9 | 117 | 4·2 | 99 | 3·5 | 133 | 4·1 | 177 | 5·8 | 200 | 6·4 | 125 | 3·8 | 11 | 0·4 | |
| Black | 2994 | 31·3 | 1442 | 13·4 | 2541 | 26·2 | 881 | 10·2 | 444 | 5·3 | 968 | 10·9 | 154 | 1·8 | 535 | 4·8 | 1093 | 10·8 | 383 | 3·8 | 423 | 3·7 | 65 | 0·7 | |
| White Hispanic | 7366 | 65·4 | 1885 | 16·2 | 3249 | 28·6 | 933 | 8·6 | 619 | 5·7 | 811 | 7·4 | 342 | 3·1 | 773 | 6·4 | 1169 | 10·2 | 755 | 6·5 | 578 | 4·8 | 79 | 0·7 | |
| White non-Hispanic | 17 709 | 54·5 | 5905 | 15·8 | 13 009 | 38·2 | 4452 | 15·0 | 1219 | 4·2 | 3029 | 10·0 | 823 | 2·7 | 2518 | 6·4 | 3757 | 10·9 | 1769 | 5·1 | 2781 | 7·1 | 230 | 0·7 | |
| East Asia | 5855 | 47·4 | 1730 | 12·7 | 2674 | 20·6 | 1236 | 12·0 | 506 | 5·1 | 542 | 5·1 | 377 | 3·5 | 958 | 6·2 | 925 | 7·2 | 1263 | 9·4 | 645 | 4·0 | 298 | 2·6 | |
| South Asia* | 2176 | 34·1 | 825 | 12·0 | 825 | 12·4 | 180 | 3·2 | 165 | 3·1 | 229 | 4·1 | 84 | 1·5 | 316 | 4·3 | 286 | 4·5 | 168 | 2·5 | 254 | 3·5 | 154 | 2·4 | |
| Southeast Asia | 3925 | 52·7 | 745 | 9·5 | 997 | 12·9 | 312 | 4·4 | 404 | 6·0 | 378 | 5·4 | 227 | 3·2 | 462 | 5·6 | 391 | 5·2 | 437 | 5·7 | 402 | 5·0 | 304 | 4·1 | |
| West Asia | 3459 | 45·2 | 1807 | 22·6 | 1918 | 24·5 | 727 | 10·1 | 326 | 4·6 | 534 | 7·3 | 126 | 1·7 | 532 | 6·4 | 631 | 8·2 | 342 | 4·4 | 413 | 5·0 | 81 | 1·0 | |
| Eastern Europe | 5265 | 44·3 | 2164 | 15·6 | 3793 | 30·0 | 1323 | 12·5 | 424 | 4·1 | 1062 | 9·8 | 248 | 2·2 | 895 | 6·0 | 1071 | 8·6 | 529 | 4·1 | 686 | 4·5 | 260 | 2·1 | |
| Northern Europe | 6987 | 49·1 | 2258 | 13·9 | 5821 | 38·9 | 1327 | 10·1 | 576 | 4·5 | 1235 | 9·3 | 277 | 2·1 | 942 | 5·5 | 1445 | 9·7 | 733 | 4·9 | 748 | 4·4 | 88 | 0·6 | |
| Southern Europe | 4200 | 51·1 | 1924 | 21·6 | 3156 | 37·6 | 1111 | 14·5 | 344 | 4·6 | 700 | 9·1 | 177 | 2·3 | 731 | 7·9 | 851 | 10·1 | 444 | 5·2 | 548 | 5·9 | 84 | 1·0 | |
| Western Europe | 13 630 | 50·7 | 4992 | 16·3 | 10 628 | 38·0 | 3162 | 13·0 | 1082 | 4·5 | 2447 | 9·8 | 490 | 1·9 | 2083 | 6·5 | 2695 | 9·7 | 1412 | 5·0 | 1291 | 4·1 | 75 | 0·3 | |
| Oceania | 2703 | 56·4 | 817 | 15·3 | 1285 | 26·2 | 500 | 11·4 | 187 | 4·3 | 384 | 8·5 | 115 | 2·6 | 352 | 6·4 | 449 | 9·0 | 292 | 5·9 | 354 | 6·2 | 37 | 0·8 | |
| Total | 92 085 | 46·4 | 33 273 | 15·2 | 57 955 | 28·2 | 4234 | 10·4 | 18 323 | 4·5 | 15 192 | 8·2 | 4234 | 2·3 | 13 320 | 5·7 | 18 323 | 8·9 | 10 200 | 4·9 | 10 679 | 4·6 | 2469 | 1·2 | |
Regions are represented by the contributing cancer registries (appendix pp 3–4). Tumours classified by International Classification of Childhood Cancer, volume 3.2, 6 Data are based on the paediatric dataset. WSR=age-standardised rate (world standard) per million person-years.
*
Comprising data from India only.