Childhood cancer patients' access to cooperative group cancer programs: A population-based study

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1339-1345

  Liu, Lihua ^a   Krailo, Mark ^a,b   Reaman, Gregory H ^c   Bernstein, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Children's Oncol Grp Stat Center   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer type; Childhood cancer; Clinical trials; Gender; Race ethnicity; Stage of disease

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STATISTICS; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY TUMOR; LEUKEMIA; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINOBLASTOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037370604     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11192     Document Type: Article

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