Increased incidence rates but no space-time clustering of childhood astrocytoma in Sweden, 1973-1992: A population-based study of pediatric brain tumors

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2077-2090

  Hjalmars, Ulf ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^b   Wahlqvist, Yngve ^c   Lannering, Birgitta ^d  

^a ÖSTERSUND HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Childhood brain tumors; Cluster analysis; Ependymoma; Epidemiology; Geographic information systems; Incidence trends; Knox test; Primitive neuroectodermal tumor medulloblastoma; Spatial scan statistic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SWEDEN; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0033135537     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990501)85:9<2077::AID-CNCR27>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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