Direct Estimates from a Nationally Representative Survey of Childhood Deaths
Sumit Gupta Shaun K Morris Wilson Suraweera Lukasz Aleksandrowicz Rajesh Dikshit Prabhat Jha
“Although most children with cancer live in low- and middle-income countries, measurements of childhood cancer burden in such countries have been restricted to incidence rates from a few subnational cancer registries and mortality rates from vital statistics. We aimed to provide alternative burden estimates by using nationally representative longitudinal survey–derived mortality rates.”