Childhood cancer in Uruguay: 1992–1994. Incidence and mortality

BACKGROUND: The referral of all children with cancer in Uruguay to a single center affords the opportunity to generate population-based incidence and mortality rates in this developing country in Latin America. PROCEDURE: All incident cases of cancer in children, 0-14 years of age, were ascertained from a combination of three sources for the period January 1992-December 1994. Diagnoses were grouped according to the International Classification …