Trends in childhood leukemia mortality in Brazil and correlation with social inequalities

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1823-1831

  Ribeiro, Karina B ^a,b,c   Lopes, Luiz F ^a   De Camargo, Beatriz ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^b Molecular Medicine Laboratory   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute lymphocytic leukemia; Children; Mortality; Socioeconomic factors; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CALCULATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INDEX OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 35048898954     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22982     Document Type: Article

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