Childhood cancer - Treatment at a cost

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 98, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 1510-1511

  Ron, Elaine ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BENIGN TUMOR; BONE CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND CANCER; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33750596393     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj437     Document Type: Editorial

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