The global burden of childhood and adolescent cancer in 2017: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate childhood cancer burden data are crucial for resource planning and health policy prioritisation. Model-based estimates are necessary because cancer surveillance data are scarce or non-existent in many countries. Although global incidence and mortality estimates are available, there are no previous analyses of the global burden of childhood cancer represented in disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs).

Methods

Using the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 methodology, childhood (ages 0-19 years) cancer mortality was estimated by use of vital registration system data, verbal autopsy data, and population-based cancer registry incidence data, which were transformed to mortality estimates through modelled mortality-to-incidenc

SUBMITTER: GBD 2017 Childhood Cancer Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6722045 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature