TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wellbrock, Maike
AU  - Borkhardt, Arndt
AU  - Ronckers, Cécile M
AU  - Spix, Claudia
AU  - Grabow, Desiree
AU  - Filbert, Anna-Liesa
AU  - Wollschläger, Daniel
AU  - Erdmann, Friederike
TI  - Socioeconomic background and childhood cancer survival in Germany: A nationwide assessment based on data from the German Childhood Cancer Registry.
JO  - International journal of cancer
VL  - nn
SN  - 0020-7136
CY  - Bognor Regis
PB  - Wiley-Liss
M1  - DKFZ-2025-01432
SP  - nn
PY  - 2025
N1  - epub
AB  - Social inequalities in childhood cancer survival have been observed in many countries, including European nations with universal healthcare systems, suggesting that not all children with cancer have benefited equally from diagnostic and therapeutic enhancements. Despite the growing socioeconomic diversity within Germany's large population, little is known about the extent of social inequalities in German childhood cancer survival. Using German Childhood Cancer Registry data, we identified all children with a cancer diagnosis before the age of 15 years in 1997-2016 in Germany (N = 35,443). Based on individual residential address information (at time of diagnosis) we applied the German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD) to measure area-based socioeconomic status. Using Cox proportional hazards models, we assessed the association between absolute area-based socioeconomic deprivation (AASD) and 10-year overall survival (OS) (end of follow-up: 15 January 2023) to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and corresponding 95
KW  - Germany Childhood Cancer Registry (Other)
KW  - childhood cancer survival (Other)
KW  - social inequalities (Other)
KW  - socioeconomic deprivation (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40673348
DO  - DOI:10.1002/ijc.70042
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/302985
ER  -