Trends in Childhood Cancer

 

This body of work uses population-based linked health data to investigate whether the incidence of childhood cancers has increased in Western Australia over the last 40 years. The results to date indicate that there may have been an increase in the incidence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia of 3-4% per year since 1982 among girls and children aged 5-14 years. These results were also supported by national Australian data. Other studies of trends in the rates of brain tumours and lymphomas are continuing.