Cancer survival among children of Turkish descent in Germany 1980-2005: a registry-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the effect of migrant status on childhood cancer survival. We studied cancer survival among children of Turkish descent in the German Cancer Childhood Registry, one of the largest childhood cancer registries worldwide.

Methods

We identified children of Turkish descent among cancer cases using a name-based approach. We compared 5-year survival probabilities of Turkish and other children in three time periods of diagnosis (1980-87, 1988-95, 1996-2005) using the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank tests.

Results

The 5-year survival probability for all cancers among 1774 cases of Turkish descent (4.76% of all 37.259 cases) was 76.9% compared to 77.6% in the comparison group (all other cases; p = 0.15). We found no age- or sex-specific surviva

SUBMITTER: Spix C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2628927 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature