Epidemiology of childhood leukemia in Hokkaido, Japan

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-326

  Nishi, Motoi ^a   Miyake, Hirotsugu ^a   Takeda, Takeo ^b   Shimada, Masako ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA, NONLYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MORTALITY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0029788052     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960729)67:3<323::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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