The Children's Oncology Group Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN): case catchment in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN) was established within the Children's Oncology Group (COG) in July 2008 to provide a centralized pediatric cancer research registry for investigators conducting approved etiologic and survivorship studies. The authors conducted an ecological analysis to characterize CCRN catchment at >200 COG institutions by demographic characteristics, diagnosis, and geographic location to determine whether the CCRN can serve as a population-based registry for childhood cancer.

Methods

During 2009 to 2011, 18,580 US children newly diagnosed with cancer were registered in the CCRN. These observed cases were compared with age-specific, sex-specific, and race/ethnicity-specific expected numbers calculated from Surveillance, Epidemiology,

SUBMITTER: Musselman JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4287245 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature