Up-to-date monitoring of childhood cancer long-term survival in Europe: Methodology and application to all forms of cancer combined

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1561-1568

  Brenner, Hermann ^a   Steliarova Foucher, Eva ^b   Arndt, Volker ^a  

^a Data Analysis and Interpretation Group   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEWBORN; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREND STUDY;

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

EID: 34548444678     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdm186     Document Type: Article

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