Patterns of care and survival for patients aged under 40 years with bone sarcoma in Britain, 1980-1994.

"This project was funded by a grant from the NHS Executive National Cancer Research and Development Programme. The Childhood Cancer Research Group is supported by the Departments of Health for England, Scotland and Wales. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the NHS Executive or of the Departments of Health. We are grateful to the following who provided notifications of cases of bone cancer directly to this study or to the National Registry of Childhood Tumours: Office for National Statistics; Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service; Trent Cancer Registry; East Anglia Cancer Registry; Thames Cancer Registry; Oxford Cancer Intelligence Unit; South and West Cancer Intelligence Unit; West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit; Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Registry; North Western Cancer Registry; Scottish Cancer Registry; Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit; UK Children's Cancer Study Group; Northern Region Young Persons' Malignant Disease Registry; Yorkshire Specialist Register of Cancer in Children and Young People; West Midlands Regional Children's Tumour Registry; Manchester Children's Tumour Registry; Northern Region Bone Tumour Registry; Yorkshire Bone Tumour Registry; Bristol Bone Tumour Registry; Scottish Bone Tumour Registry; MRC Cancer Trials Unit. We thank the NHS Central Registers for flagging of study members and copies of death certificates."