Childhood cancer burden in part of eastern India-population based cancer registry data for Kolkata (1997-2004)

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1283-1288

  Datta, Karabi ^a   Choudhuri, Maitrayee ^a   Guha, Subhas ^a   Biswas, Jaydip ^a  

^a CHITTARANJAN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Leukemia; Lymphoma

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955955331     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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