Global incidence and mortality of childhood leukemia and its relationship with the Human Development Index

Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Irina M Farber and Soleiman Kheiri

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 7, 1-14

Abstract: Background: Childhood leukemia (CL) is a major global concern, accounting for 33% of all new cancer cases and 31% of all cancer deaths in children aged 0–14 years. Our study aimed to analyze the global incidence and mortality rates of CL in 2020 and its relationship with the Human Development Index (HDI). Material and methods: In this ecologic study, we analyzed the 2020 cancer incidence and mortality data for children aged 0–14 years from the GLOBOCAN Project. We calculated the Age-Standardized Incidence Rate (ASIR) and Age-Standardized Mortality Rate (ASMR) of CL per 100,000 individuals. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to examine the association between childhood leukemia ASIR, ASMR, and the HDI, with a statistical significance threshold of P

Date: 2024
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0304354 (text/html)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id= ... 04354&type=printable (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:plo:pone00:0304354

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304354

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in PLOS ONE from Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosone ().