Retinoblastoma Appears to Be on the Increase in Europe

The incidence of retinoblastoma appears to be rising in Europe, a new study suggests, according to a Reuters report.

With a reported incidence of around one per 15,000 to 18,000 live births, retinoblastoma is the most common intraocular malignancy, Dr. Andrew W. Stacey of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues note in Ophthalmology. Some studies have suggested that numbers have remained stable since the beginning of the century, but a longer-term Finnish study recorded an increase from about one in 16,700 live births in 1990 to one in 12,500 in 2014.

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