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Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2, 62 (1 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncponc0084

Childhood cancer: trends in incidence and survival

Steliarova-Foucher E et al. (2004) Geographical patterns and time trends of cancer incidence and survival among children and adolescents in Europe since the 1970s (the ACCIS project): an epidemiological study. Lancet 364: 2097–2105 Because childhood cancers are relatively rare, analysis of trends in incidence depends on large-scale, long-term disease registries.