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Table 1 Distribution of cases by diagnosis

From: Foreign children with cancer in Italy

Diagnosis

Immigrants

Born in Italy

Total

 

N.cases

%

N.cases

%

N.cases

%

Leukaemia

537

46.9

4,536

33.4

5,073

34.4

ALL

347

30.3

3,593

26.4

3,940

26.7

AML

132

11.5

710

5.2

842

5.7

OL

58

5.1

233

1.7

291

2.0

Lymphoma

136

11.9

2,008

14.8

2,144

14.5

HL

49

4.3

1,047

7.7

1,096

7.4

NHL

87

7.6

946

7.0

1,033

7.0

CNS tumours

119

10.4

2,119

15.6

2,238

15.2

SNS tumours

57

5.0

1,093

8.0

1,150

7.8

NB

55

4.8

1,061

7.8

1,116

7.6

RTB

39

3.4

308

2.3

347

2.4

Kidney tumours

26

2.3

621

4.6

647

4.4

WT

25

2.2

540

4.0

565

3.8

Liver tumours

11

1.0

128

0.9

139

0.9

Bone tumours

93

8.1

582

4.3

675

4.6

Osteorarcoma

48

4.2

231

1.7

279

1.9

ES

45

3.9

327

2.4

372

2.5

STS

68

5.9

885

6.5

953

6.5

RMS

41

3.6

438

3.2

479

3.3

GCT

10

0.9

382

2.8

392

2.7

Carcinomas

16

1.4

174

1.3

190

1.3

Thyroid

2

0.2

36

0.3

38

0.3

Melanoma

0

-

34

0.3

34

0.2

Other tumours

34

3.0

756

5.6

790

5.4

Total

1,146

100

13,592

100

14,738

100

  1. Legend: ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; AML, acute myeloblastic leukaemia; OL, other leukaemia; HL, Hodgkin's lymphoma; NHL, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; CNS, central nervous system; SNS, sympathetic nervous system; NB, neuroblastoma; RTB, retinoblastoma; WT, Wilm's tumour; ES, Ewing's sarcoma; STS, soft tissue sarcoma; RMS, rabdomiosarcoma; GCT, germinal cells tumour.