Nutritional status in childhood malignancies

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-155

  Schiavetti, Amalia ^a   Fornari, Christiana ^a   Bonci, Enea ^a   Clerico, Anna ^a   Guidi, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; UNDERWEIGHT; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTIOCYTOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MIXED TUMOR; NEOPLASM; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SARCOMA;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, COMPLEX AND MIXED; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PILOT PROJECTS; SARCOMA;

EID: 0642283510     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc4402_05     Document Type: Article

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