Latest data show a global increase of 13% in childhood cancer incidence over two decades

An international study coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and published today in The Lancet Oncology shows that in 2001-2010, childhood cancer was 13% more common than in the 1980s, reaching an annual incidence rate of 140 per million children aged 0-14 years worldwide.
Steliarova-Foucher E, Colombet M, Ries LAG, Moreno F, Dolya A, Bray F, Hesseling P, Shin HY, Stiller CA, and the IICC-3 contributors.
International incidence of childhood cancer, 2001-10: a population-based registry study. Lancet Oncol. Published online 11 April 2017.
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