Clinical characteristics and factors affecting growth in long-term survivors of cancer

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 166-172

  Talvensaari, Kimmo K ^a   Knip, Mikael ^a   Lanning, Peter ^a   Lanning, Marjatta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

acute lymphoblastic leukemia; childhood cancer; follow up studies; growth retardation; obesity; solid tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL IRRADIATION; SOLID TUMOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0030066370     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199603)26:3<166::AID-MPO4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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