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Table 3 Incidence* of PMI childhood and adolescent cancers

From: Descriptive Epidemiology in Mexican children with cancer under an open national public health insurance program

Diagnosis

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Leukemia

69.9

73.4

73.1

75.3

75.6

78.1

Lymphomas

13.7

13.4

15.7

15.4

15.7

15.1

Intracranial neoplasm’s

12.4

12.9

12.7

14.2

15.7

16.2

Germ cell tumors

3.5

5.9

7.6

9.1

9.4

8.9

Soft tissue sarcomas

7.1

7.1

6.1

4.6

4.9

6.5

Osteosarcoma

6.0

6.8

8.1

4.7

6.2

4.5

Retinoblastoma

4.9

6.3

4.5

5.8

6.5

5.8

Renal tumors

5.2

5.4

4.3

5.5

5.0

5.1

Miscellaneous reticular neoplasm’s

2.6

3.0

3.7

3.9

4.9

5.5

Hepatic tumors

1.9

2.8

2.2

2.3

3.1

2.8

Neuroblastoma

2.5

3.0

3.4

3.1

4.1

2.7

Ewing tumor and related sarcomas of bone

1.1

2.0

2.2

2.9

2.3

1.4

Other solid tumors

2.1

3.2

3.4

2.7

3.3

3.8

Total incidence/year

133.5

145.8

146.2

150.3

159.2

156.9

  1. *Incidence: total number of newly diagnosed cases per year/total population under 18 years by 1,000,000 population/year.