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Improving survival for childhood cancer in Slovakia

✍ Scribed by Eva Kramárová; Ivan Plesko; Roger J. Black; Adriana Obsitníková

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
French
Weight
633 KB
Volume
65
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7136

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✦ Synopsis

Data from the National Cancer Registry of Slovakia were used to evaluate survival for 2,958 childhood cancer patients registered between 1968 and 1987 and aged 0-14 years at diagnosis. Actuarial survival rates were computed for children diagnosed in 4 successive 5-year periods and compared. Overall 5-year survival rose from 2OYo for the period 1968-I972 to 46% for the period 1983-1987. The increase was statistically significant in age groups 1-4, 5-9 and 10-14 years. Survival for children aged less than I year also increased slightly, but this was not statistically significant. In most of the major diagnostic groups, survival increased markedly. Five-year survival rose significantly for leukaemias, lymphomas, CNS neoplasms, Wilms' tumours, bone tumours, soft-tissue sarcomas and germ-cell turnours. Despite this progress, survival in Slovakia remains lower than the corresponding figures from registries in Western Europe and the United States.

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