Increasing incidence of childhood cancer: Report of 20 years experience from the Greater Delaware Valley Pediatric Tumor Registry

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-338

  Bunin, Greta R ^a,d   Feuer, Eric J ^b   Witman, Philip A ^c   Meadows, Anna T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STATISTICS; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NEGRO; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030018486     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1996.tb00054.x     Document Type: Article

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