... ratio between children of families who own a car and children of families who do not was 0.29 with a 95% confidence interval of 0.13-0.62 (p = 0.002). These results suggest that in Greece, socially disadvantaged children have a less favorable survival from childhood leukemia. 30 6 2009 ©...

... rates for the period 1951–1959 to the population structure of subsequent 5-year calendar periods. Certified mortality fell about 60% for leukaemias, 21% for lymphomas, 66% for Wilms’ tumours, 40% for bone sarcomas and 30% for other and unspecified sites. Thus, the overall decline in childhood cancer...

...Carlo La Vecchia; Adriano Decarli The decline in childhood cancer mortality in Italy from 1955 to 1980 has been evaluated through (1) comparison of age-specific and age-standardized (0–14 years) rates for the periods 1955–1960 and 1979–1980 and (2) computation of expected numbers of deaths...

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...M.D. Innis The relative frequencies of the common malignancies of childhood were abstracted from volmes I and II of Cancer Incidence in Five Continents. Those registries represented in both volumes were compared from one period to the next within and between registries. It was found...

...M.D. Innis The part played by heredity in the genesis of childhood neoplasia was investigated by examining the relative frequency of leukemia and other childhood malignancies in a widely scattered ‘family’ of British descent. It was found that in Canada, England and Wales, and New Zealand, where...