In this section, we report the number of childhood and adolescent cancer deaths, relative frequencies, and crude (not standardized for age) mortality rates for the main diagnostic cancer groups according to the third version of the International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC31), and for all cancers combined. Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) are excluded because < 3 deaths due to LCH have been reported during the calendar period in focus, 1993-2022. We report mortality for children (0-14 years old) and adolescents (15-19 years old), separately and combined (0-19 years old). Differences between males and females are displayed using male to female ratios and sex-specific mortality rates. We suppress data in tables by setting cells to NA* (not available), if these reveal information on specific patients. For example, if only one patient died of a certain diagnosis, we don’t show information related to their age and sex. If all deaths of a certain diagnosis are of same sex, we don’t show the sex ratio. Mortality is calculated as the number of cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year. We follow the same methodology as that used for the Swiss Cancer Report 2021 – Methods Report (available only in German). A more technical description of the methods is provided in chapter 2 of Statistical methods for Cancer Reporting in Switzerland.
The tables and figures of this section can be cited as follows: Title of figure or table (2025). Figures: Mortality. Childhood
Cancer Registry. URL https://www.childhoodcancerregistry.ch. Accessed: date.
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