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Date publication
avril 2011
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr DESANDES Emmanuel
,
Dr LACOUR Brigitte
Tous les auteurs :
Lacour B, Guyot-Goubin A, Desandes E, Clavel J
Résumé
In France, cancer hits around 1,700 children (0-14 years) and 700 adolescents (15-19 years) each year. In other terms, one child out of 440 developes a cancer before the age of 15 in industrial countries, and 1 out of 300 before the age of 20. Five-year survival after childhood cancer has dramatically improved in the last 30 years, reaching yet 80%. A very small fraction of cases is attributable to known risk factors such as heritable cancers and heritable predisposing diseases, high-dose ionizing radiation, chemotherapeutic drugs. Other factors are suspected, such as lack of common infections in early childhood in leukaemia, or prenatal exposure to household pesticides in many cancers.
Référence
. 2011 Apr;13(4):125-35.
