Temporal trends in the incidence of childhood leukemia, lymphomas and solid tumors in north-west Italy, 1967-2001. A report of the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont

Haematologica

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1197-1204

  Dalmasso, Paola ^a   Pastore, Guido ^a,b   Zuccolo, Luisa ^a   Maule, Milena Maria ^a   Pearce, Neil ^a,c   Merletti, Franco ^a   Magnani, Corrado ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cancer registry; Childhood leukemia; Childhood malignant neoplasm; Epidemiology; Incidence; Time trend

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 25444434652     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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