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Frequency of Children's Cancer
Last update on: 01/14/2008
Germany
Annually about 2.000 new cases of cancer amongst children and adolescents. Etwa About 220.000 new incidents amongst men and about 206.000 amongst women. Referenz: Reference: "Cancer in Germany. Frequency and Trends" by the society of epidemiological cancer register in Germany, registered society, in coorporation with the Rober-Koch Institude, 5. revised edition, Saarbrücken 2006.„
Details of the German Children's Cancer Register
Austria
On average annually about 150 new incidents amongst children and adolescents up to 15 years. In total about 250 new cancer patients up to 18 years of age annually. Within all age groups boys are affected more frequently than girls. According to Statistics Austria about 35.000 adults are newly affected by cancer annually.
Details of Statistics Austria:
Europe-wide
12.000 newly affected children annually
Worldwide
Annually there are about 160.000 neu cases of cancer amongst children and adolescents.
A big part of the children suffering from cancer lives in developing countries. Whilst around 75 percent of the children in industrialised nations survive due to early diagnosis and improved treatment concepts, around 80 percent of the affected children and adolescents in developing countries die as they lack the financial means to apply modern treatment. Frequently cases cancer even remain undiagnosed.
Frequency of the Types of Children's Cancer
Leukemia (= cancer of the blood) counts as the most frequent form of cancer amongst children and adolescents (33,8 percent).
Brain tumour (20 percent): the second most frequently diagnosed grouped, followed by lymphoid cancer (12,7 percent).
The frequency of individual diagnoses:
acute lymphoblastic leukemia (27,9 percent), neuroblastoma (8,6 percent), astrocytoma (8,5 percent), nephroblastoma (6,1 percent) Non-Hodgkin-lymphoma (6,5 percent).
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is most frequent amongst children from one to six years. Comparably bone marrow tumours and lymphomas suggest a high indication amongst older children.
Reference: www.kinderkrebsinfo.de
