Characteristics of cohorts in the Childhood Cancer Research Group at the Danish Cancer Society’s Research Center
Cohort name (acronym) Socioeconomic Consequences in Adult Life after Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia - SALiCCS
Main focus areas Socioeconomic circumstances and family factors in long- term survivors after childhood cancer, while also
considering the somatic and psychiatric disease burden Source of identification of
study population
Nordic cancer registries and central population registries
Study population Approx. 20,000 5-year survivors of childhood cancer from Denmark, Finland and Sweden (diagnosed at age 0-19 years between 1943-2008) and two comparison groups:
1) Randomly selected population comparisons (ratio 1:5) 2) Biological siblings of childhood cancer survivors Design and data collection
Study design Cohort studies
Setting Population-based
Data sources (yes/no)
Registers Yes
Medical records No
Questionnaires No
Interviews No
Physical examinations No Bio samples (if yes, specify) No
Other tests No
Website and/or contact person
www.saliccs.org
Jeanette Falck Winther, jeanette@cancer.dk