Table 2

5-year survival probabilities for cancers of children with and without Turkish descent, German Childhood Cancer Registry 1980–2005 by sex and age at diagnosis.


5 year survival probability % (number of deaths within 5 years of diagnosis)


Turkish descent
Non-Turkish
p-value, log-rank test

All Malignancies
76.9 (400)
77.6 (7823)
0.15
     Boys
77.1 (233)
77.0 (4483)
0.45
     Girls
76.6 (167)
78.3 (3340)
0.19

Age at diagnosis



     0–<1 years
77.5 (37)
77.1 (806)
0.90
     1–<5 years
79.4 (138)
79.2 (2642)
0.69
     5–<10 years
76.7 (114)
77.8 (2077)
0.21
     10–<15 years
72.9 (111)
75.3 (2298)
0.18

Spix et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:355   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-355