What Price Do Families Pay When a Child has Cancer?
- OPACC
- Jan 15, 2019
- 1 min read
New research by POGO is linking data from its cancer registry (POGONIS) to copies of Canadian tax returns stored at Statistics Canada. Families who experience a diagnosis of childhood cancer are being compared to families who do not experience cancer and are similar in age to the parents, in number and age of the children, where they live and income at the time of diagnosis.
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