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- Title
Cancer incidence in the age range 0-34 years: Historical and actual status in Denmark.
- Authors
van der Horst, Mirjam; Winther, Jeanette Falck; Olsen, Jørgen H.
- Abstract
On the basis of 55 years of continuous cancer registration in Denmark, we present cancer incidence rates, time trends and birth cohort analyses for persons aged 0-34 years. The group of 40,750 cancer patients showed a substantial over-representation of males aged 1-24 years. The cancer pattern among young (15-34 years) men was dominated by testicular cancer (35%), lymphomas (14%) and tumors of the brain (13%), while the pattern among young women was governed by invasive cervical cancer (19%), malignant melanoma (15%) and cancer of the breast (12%). In this age range, a positive time trend was seen after 1970, equivalent to average annual percentage increases of 1.9% for men and 1.8% for women, due mainly to markedly increasing trends for testicular cancer, malignant melanoma, brain tumors, thyroid cancer, skin carcinomas and skin sarcoma among men, and for brain tumors, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, malignant melanoma, skin carcinomas and thyroid cancer among women. We saw no clear time trend for breast cancer among women. The cancer pattern among children (0-14 years) was similar to that reported for other white populations. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
- Publication
International Journal of Cancer, 2006, Vol 118, Issue 11, p2816
- ISSN
0020-7136
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ijc.21566