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[ZD12] Incidence of childhood leukaemia
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Leukemia is the most common children cancer. It represents 25 to 30% of all new diagnosed cancer cases in children younger than 15 years. The mechanisms and causes for developing leukemia in children are not well known, but there are some relationships with environmental risk factors. Some data from European Cancer Registers show, that incidence rate of leukemia in children has increased by 0,7% per year in the years from 1997 to1999. There are evident differences between west and east European countries. In Slovenia, due to rare cases of children leukemia, we can’t describe the trend in the years from 1998 to 2008.

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Figure ZD12-1: Number of new cases (incidence) of children leukemia in children aged from 0 to 14 years old in Slovenia, from 1998 to 2008
Sources:

Zadnik V, Primic Žakelj M, Epidemiology and Cancer Registries, Institute of Oncology, 2011.

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1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
incidence number of new cases 13 13 14 14 12 9 12 9 12 15
2008
incidence number of new cases 13
Figure ZD12-2: Aged standardized incidence rate of leukemia in children aged from 0 to14 years old in selected European countries in the year 2002
Sources:

WHO, 2007.

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Romania Portugal Poland Czech Republic Slovenia Hungary Slovakia Lithuania Bulgaria Estonia
country incidence number per milion inhabitants 31.3 32.2 32.3 36.8 37.1 37.9 37.9 38.2 39.6 40
country incidence - EU avarage number per milion inhabitants 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4
Netherlands United Kingdom Spain Ireland France Sweden Germany Malta Denmark Switzerland
country incidence number per milion inhabitants 40.7 41 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.7 44.8 45 47.3 48.3
country incidence - EU avarage number per milion inhabitants 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4
Finland Italy
country incidence number per milion inhabitants 50.8 53.9
country incidence - EU avarage number per milion inhabitants 42.4 42.4

Methodology

Date of data source summarization
Last modified
06.06.2013
Author(s)

Assist. Pia Vračko, dr.med., National Institute of Public Health