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RecruitingNCT02959086Updated Oct 22, 2026

Shanghai Epidemiology Study for Adolescents and Children With Cancer

An observational study in Childhood Cancer, sponsored by Children's Cancer Group, China. Recruiting at 2 sites in China. Open to participants aged 0 Years to 19 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-22.

Sponsored by Children's Cancer Group, China · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jan 2002; still recruiting 24 years 10 months later.
Updated Oct 22, 2026Sponsor changed2 sites added+1 moreGo to Updates ↓
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
2,000
Ages
0 Years to 19 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to describe the morbidity, mortality, disability and survival rate in Shanghai adolescents and children with cancer diagnosed since January 2002.

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The investigators collected information of all the adolescents and children diagnosed cancer in Shanghai since January 2002, including their name, gender, the date of birth, the diagnosis date, disease diagnosis, residence address and the last follow-up time status (survival/death). The type of cancer included all malignant tumors such as Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Hodgkin Lymphoma, central nervous system tumors, Neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor and so on. Then the investigators would analyze the morbidity, mortality, disability and survival rate.

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Conditions studied

  • Childhood Cancer

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Keywords

  • Epidemiology
  • Shanghai
  • Cancer
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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In context

Neoplasms

10,818 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasms; 2,324 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 2,000 is above the median of 200 across 2,638 observational studies indexed under Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Children's Cancer Group, China is the lead sponsor of 11 studies on the registry; 5 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
0 Years to 19 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Since January 2002 in Shanghai, 0-19 year-old children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer.

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Inclusion criteria

  • 0-19 year-old children and adolescents.
  • Diagnosed cancer in Shanghai since January 2002.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients who were lost of follow-up.
  • Patient's death wasn't caused by cancer or complications but by other accidents such as car accident, fell from a great height and so on.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
2,000 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
10 Years
Patient registry
Yes

Groups and cohorts

  • 1

    Patients were diagnosed since January 2002.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall survival for the whole cohort

    Time frame: 5 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Mortality for the whole cohort

    Time frame: 5 years

Other outcomes

  1. Disability rate for the whole cohort

    Time frame: 5 years

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Study locations

1 of 2 sites recruiting
  • Shanghai Children's Medical Center
    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality 200127, China
    Active, not recruiting

    Not enrolling at this site.

  • Shanghai Municipal Center of Disease Prevention & Control
    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality 200336, China
    Recruiting
    • Ying Zheng, MS,MD · Contact0086-21-62758710
    • Liang Shi, MD,MPH · Contactshiliang@scdc.sh.cn · 0086-21-62758710
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Sites
2 sites added, 2 sites removed
Show 2 added (2 China)
  • Shanghai Children's Medical Center · Shanghai, China
  • Shanghai Municipal Center of Disease Prevention & Control · Shanghai, China
Show 2 removed
  • Shanghai Children's Medical Center · Shanghai, China
  • Shanghai Municipal Center of Disease Prevention & Control · Shanghai, China
Oct 22, 2026
Sponsor
Collaborators added: Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention; collaborators removed: Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Prevention & Control
Oct 22, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 22, 2026
    2 sites added, 2 sites removed
    Show 2 added (2 China)
    • Shanghai Children's Medical Center · Shanghai, China
    • Shanghai Municipal Center of Disease Prevention & Control · Shanghai, China
    Show 2 removed
    • Shanghai Children's Medical Center · Shanghai, China
    • Shanghai Municipal Center of Disease Prevention & Control · Shanghai, China
    Sponsor Collaborators added: Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention; collaborators removed: Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Prevention & Control
    + 3 other changes: identifiers, verification date and index terms

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02959086
Lead sponsor
Children's Cancer Group, China
Collaborators
Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 8, 2016
Start date
Jan 2002
Primary completion
Apr 2017
Completion
Jan 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 22, 2026

Study contacts

Yi-Jin Gao, MD
Contact
gaoyijin@scmc.com.cn
0086-21-38626161
Xing-Wei Wang, MD
Contact
wangxingwei@scmc.com.cn
0086-21-38626161
Yi-Jin Gao, MD
principal investigator · Shanghai Children's Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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