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ORIGINAL ARTICLES: Pediatric oncology

Effect of socioeconomic position on survival after childhood cancer in Denmark

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Pages 742-750 | Received 11 Sep 2015, Accepted 17 Jan 2016, Published online: 03 Mar 2016

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Table 1. Characteristics of Danish children with cancer diagnosed in 1990–2009, for all childhood cancers combined and for three main diagnostic groups of cancer.

Table 2. Associations between parental socioeconomic position and survival from childhood cancer.

Figure 1. Adjusted Cox curves illustrating the probability of survival over time since diagnosis, stratified by mother’s education (A), mother’s income (B), parents living together or living alone (C), and number of full siblings (D). Adjusted for child’s age at diagnosis, decade of diagnosis, sex, site of cancer, mother’s age at child’s birth, mother’s education, father’s education, mother’s income, parents living together or alone, and number of full siblings.

Figure 1. Adjusted Cox curves illustrating the probability of survival over time since diagnosis, stratified by mother’s education (A), mother’s income (B), parents living together or living alone (C), and number of full siblings (D). Adjusted for child’s age at diagnosis, decade of diagnosis, sex, site of cancer, mother’s age at child’s birth, mother’s education, father’s education, mother’s income, parents living together or alone, and number of full siblings.

Table 3. Impact of socioeconomic position on overall survival of children with hematological (3A), CNS tumors (3B), and non-CNS solid tumors (3C). Table 3A. Hematological malignancies.

Table 3B. CNS tumors.

Table 3C. Non-CNS solid tumors.

Table 4. Absolute excess risk for death after 5 years in children with any pediatric cancer, by parental cohabitation status and number of full siblings.

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