Cancer incidence and mortality among teenagers in vaud, switzerland, 1974–1992

✍ Scribed by Fabio Levi; Carlo La Vecchia; Lalao Randimbison; Van-Cong Te

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 351 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910610108

✦ Synopsis

Data from the Vaud Cancer Registry, Switzerland, were used to analyse incidence and mortality from cancer in teenagers (aged I0 to I 9 years) over the period 1974-1992. A total of I I 3 males and 87 females were registered. Of these, 23% were lymphomas, 16% leukaemias, about 15% central nervous system neoplasms, 10% germ cell tumours and bone neoplasms and 8% soft tissue sarcomas. The overall incidence rate (ageadjusted, world standard population) for all cancers combined was 167 per million boys and 128 per million girls. In both sexes, there was some indication of rising trends over time, to reach 196 per million males and 14 I per million females in 1986-1 992. The only types of cancer showing consistent upward trends in both sexes were lymphomas. A total of 53 cancer deaths were certified, due to leukaemias in about 40% of cases in both sexes and to lymphomas and brain turnours in I5%20%. The overall mortality rate at age 10-19 years (age-standardised, world standard) was 47 per million boys and 3 I per million girls, and no trend in mortality was observed over time. The 2 main