Primary Assessment of the Correlation between Pesticides and Cancer Incidence in Children

Abstract

In 2022, the number of newly diagnosed children with cancer aged 0 to 18 years was 881 (2021 - 873). The incidence rate of cancer in children was 7.5 (2021 - 7.4) per 100,000 child population. In the structure of oncological diseases, the leading positions were held by: leukemias and lymphomas (29.5%), brain and spinal cord tumors (21.8%), bone and joint neoplasms (7.8%), connective and soft tissue neoplasms (7.2%), kidney neoplasms (6.2%), retroperitoneal space neoplasms (4.7%), and eye neoplasms (4.2%), which together accounted for 81.4% of all newly diagnosed cancer in children. The distribution of tumor process stages in 2022 was as follows: stage I-II 49.7% (2021 - 38.4%), stage III - 19.3% (2021 - 18.9%), stage IV - 4.9% (2021 - 3.2%). In 2022, 4,907 children were under dispensary observation in oncological institutions. The prevalence rate of cancer in the pediatric population in 2022 was 41.8 per 100,000 child population. The mortality rate from cancer per 100,000 child population in 2022 was 2.8 (2021 - 2.9). The main causes of deaths among children were: brain and spinal cord neoplasms (22.7%), hemoblastoses (10.6%), bone and joint neoplasms (10.3%), kidney neoplasms (8.2%), lymphomas (8.2%), liver neoplasms (7.3%), and connective and other soft tissue neoplasms (7.3%), which together accounted for nearly 74.5% of all deaths from cancer among children