Time trends and prognostic factors for survival from childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont (Italy)

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 240-249

  Dama, Elisa ^a   Pastore, Guido ^a,b   Mosso, Maria Luisa ^a   Maule, Milena Maria ^a   Zuccolo, Luisa ^a   Magnani, Corrado ^a,b,c   Merletti, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer registries; Childhood neoplasm; Population based studies; Prognostic factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPENDYMOMA; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; GLIOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33344472561     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-005-0034-7     Document Type: Article

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