Temporal trends in the incidence of childhood leukemia, lymphomas and solid tumors in north-west Italy, 1967-2001. A report of the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont.

Abstract

Our data suggest an increasing incidence of childhood cancer in general, and specifically for leukemia, CNS tumors and neuroblastoma in Piedmont in 1967-2001. The observed trends are unlikely to be explained by random variation, changes in exhaustiveness or quality of data collection and registration.