Cancer patterns among children of Turkish descent in Germany: A study at the German Childhood Cancer Registry

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Spallek, Jacob ^a   Spix, Claudia ^b   Zeeb, Hajo ^c   Kaatsch, Peter ^b   Razum, Oliver ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b German Childhood Cancer Registry (GCCR)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; RETINOBLASTOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TURKEY;

EID: 44349166342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-152     Document Type: Article

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