RT Book, Section
A1 Parker, Louise
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7041657
T1 Chapter 444. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7041657
RD 2024/04/19
AB Childhood  cancer  is  a  rare  disease  diagnosed  in  around  1  in  600  children  under  age  15  years.  This  is  in  marked  contrast  to  adults,  for  whom  the  lifetime  risk  of  cancer  is  1  in  3.  Nonetheless,  cancer  is  an  important  cause  of  death  in  children.  After  the  first  year  of  life,  during  which  mortality  is  high  largely  due  to  congenital  anomalies  and  complications  arising  from  pregnancy  and  birth,  cancer  is  the  single  most  common  disease-related  cause  of  death  in  children  and  accounts  for  around  a  quarter  of  all  childhood  deaths  due  to  disease.  In  2004  in  the  United  States,  there  were  11,619  deaths  in  children  ages  1  to  14  years;  of  these,  5365  were  due  to  disease  and  26%  of  these  (ie,  1418)  were  due  to  cancer  (eTable  444.1).1