Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Department of Paediatrics, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, University of Linkoping, Linkoping, Sweden Department of Paediatrics, County Hospital, Halmstad, Sweden Department of Paediatric Surgery, The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, University of Umea, Umea, Sweden Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden Department of Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Paediatrics, The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Aim: Solid tumours constitute 40% of childhood malignancies. The Swedish Childhood Cancer Registry is population based and includes all children with cancer reported from the six paediatric oncology centres in Sweden. The aim was to investigate incidence and survival. Methods: We used the new WHO ICCC-3 for reclassification of the patients. Incidence and survival analyses were performed in the study population. Results: Two thousand four hundred and eighty-seven children (