Childhood cancer has increased the last thirty years

Among adolescents aged 15 to 19 years the average has increased at a rate of 1.5% per year. However, advances in diagnosis and treatment have reduced infant mortality from the disease in the West. Are results from analysis of data provided by 19 European countries, By   Vanessa Marsh. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reports, the incidence of childhood cancer and the survival of children with cancer in Europe has increased over the last thirty years, The results of a study conducted by Dr. Eva Steliarova-Foucher, project director at the IARC, and his colleagues have produced clear evidence of that increase. 


However, childhood cancer is still today considered a rare disease. This is the first investigation by the European Union within the project Automated Childhood Cancer Information System (ACCIS) , which has been run by an international scientific committee composed of authors, and is the result of collaboration between some 80 records population data with cancer. 

Dr. Peter Boyle, IARC director, said in a statement from the International Agency for Research on Cancer that this project has collected data from a total of 19 European countries, with the intention of increasing the capacity of cancer control. 

More than 100,596 children premeditated

Based on 100,596 children suffering from cancer; the average incidence of this disease was 118 per million sick children in the 70's, 124 per million in 80, and 139 per million in 90. 

Among adolescents aged 15 to 19 years the average has risen by 1.5% per year: in the 70 adolescents with cancer were 147 per million in the 80, 165 per million, and in the 90, 193 per million, according to the study of 15,460 cases of cancer in adolescents. 

This increase has occurred in all types of tumors in the case of children, while in adolescents the disease manifests itself especially carcinomas, lymphomas, sarcomas, brain tumors or tumors composed of embryonic cells that the fetus accumulates in various parts your body and, at any time during the life of the individual, can become cancer.