Timely disclosure of progress in childhood cancer survival by 'period' analysis in the Automated Childhood Cancer Information System

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1554-1560

  Steliarova Foucher, E ^a   Arndt, V ^b   Parkin, D M ^c   Berrino, F ^d   Brenner, H ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer registries; Childhood cancer; Population based; Prognosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; EWING SARCOMA; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE TABLE METHOD; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREND STUDY;

CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34548442553     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdm194     Document Type: Article

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