Benchmarking International
Survival by Toronto stAge
Childhood cancer survival
rates still vary across Europe and other developed countries, but the reasons
why are not fully understood. Until now, teasing out the clues that could
explain these variations has not been feasible. This is due to the lack of
information on how far cancers have spread at diagnosis (tumour stage) and the
different ways that this is recorded in different countries. Prof. Kathy
Pritchard-Jones and her international team will overcome this issue by
standardising cancer data on tumour stage across multiple European countries
and further abroad to allow meaningful comparisons. Their findings could help
countries to understand and improve childhood cancer survival rates in their
own nations.