Survival rates of childhood cancer patients in Osaka, Japan

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-54

  Ajiki, Wakiko ^a   Tsukuma, Hideaki ^a   Oshima, Akira ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Population based cancer registry; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GONAD TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; JAPAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROBLASTOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842863537     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyh003     Document Type: Article

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