Global, regional, and national burden of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children: Epidemiological trends analysis from 1990 to 2021
Yuyuan Hu, Yongping Liu, Jieting Fu, Yong Liu, Haiying Wang, Ying Song · 2024
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Yuyuan Hu and co-authors chart childhood leukemia's global burden across three decades in a 2024 study. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the emblematic childhood cancer, and its toll, cases, deaths, and lost healthy years, had not been totaled country by country in one sweep. The team mined the Global Burden of Disease 2021 database for 1990 through 2021, slicing by age, sex, and development level.
The headline is split. Deaths and lost-year rates fell worldwide, treatment's long success story, while incidence wobbled rather than fell. Rich regions showed the pattern's sharpest form: more cases recorded, fewer deaths, the dividend of strong systems. Poorer regions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, moved the other way, their burden growing as detection and care lag. Boys carried more of the disease than girls throughout. The authors call the map an argument: the therapies exist, and the frontier now is delivering them where the burden is rising.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuyuan Hu, Yongping Liu, Jieting Fu, Yong Liu, Haiying Wang, Ying Song |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |