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. 2021 Jan 4;113(1):9-15.
doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa069.

Scaling Up the Surveillance of Childhood Cancer: A Global Roadmap

Marion Piñeros  1 , Les Mery  1 , Isabelle Soerjomataram  1 , Freddie Bray  1 , Eva Steliarova-Foucher  1
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Scaling Up the Surveillance of Childhood Cancer: A Global Roadmap

Marion Piñeros et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. .

Abstract

The World Health Organization recently launched the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer aiming to substantially increase survival among children with cancer by 2030. The ultimate goal concerns particularly less developed countries where survival estimates are considerably lower than in high-income countries where children with cancer attain approximately 80% survival. Given the vast gap in high-quality data availability between more and less developed countries, measuring the success of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer will also require substantial support to childhood cancer registries to enable them to provide survival data at the population level. Based on our experience acquired at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in global cancer surveillance, we hereby review crucial aspects to consider in the development of childhood cancer registration and present our vision on how the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development can accelerate the measurement of the outcome of children with cancer.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Distribution of the estimated numbers of new cancer cases by age group in settings categorized by Human Development Index (HDI), 2018. The area of the circles is proportionate to the total number of cancer cases (32).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Composition of cancer types occurring in children and adults, circa 2008–2012. Based on 5 431 905 cases recorded in Australia, Belarus, Costa Rica, Brazil (Goiania), India (Chennai), Israel, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom (England), United States (SEER 18), Turkey (Izmir), Uganda (Kyadondo), and Zimbabwe (Harare, African) during the contributory period to Cancer Incidence in Five Continent, volume XI (circa 2008–2012) (18). CNS = central nervous system.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Percentage of population covered by registries contributing to IICC-3 in 2010, by continent (53).
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