Childhood cancers in Chennai, India, 1990-2001: Incidence and survival

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2607-2611

  Swaminathan, Rajaraman ^a   Rama, Ranganathan ^a   Shanta, Viswanathan ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE WIA   (India)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Childhood cancer registry; Incidence; Population based cancer registry; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINOBLASTOMA;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETINOBLASTOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42549095623     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23428     Document Type: Article

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