Descriptive epidemiology of childhood cancers in Bangalore, India

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 405-410

  Nandakumar, Ambakumar ^a,b,c   Anantha, Narayanappa ^a,c   Appaji, L ^a,c   Swamy, Kumara ^a,c   Mukherjee, Geetashree ^a,c   Venugopal, Thalagavadi ^a,c   Reddy, Sreerama ^a,c   Dhar, Murali ^a,b  

^a KIDWAI MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c Population Based Cancer Registry ^*

Author keywords

Childhood cancers; Incidence; India; Mortality; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL; THYROID CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, NONLYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029974895     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00052665     Document Type: Article

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