Survival in Children Below the Age of 15 Years With Leukemia: Temporal Patterns in Eastern and Western Germany Since German Reunification

• Maike Wellbrock,
• Hajo Zeeb,
• Claudia Spix,
• Desiree Grabow,
• Arndt Borkhardt,
• Friederike Erdmann

Affiliations

Maike Wellbrock

1 Division of Childhood Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Hajo Zeeb

2 Division of Prevention and Evaluation, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, Bremen, Germany

Claudia Spix

1 Division of Childhood Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Desiree Grabow

1 Division of Childhood Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Arndt Borkhardt

4 Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Düsseldorf, Germany

Friederike Erdmann

1 Division of Childhood Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany