Space-time clustering in childhood nervous system tumors in the Region of Murcia, Spain, 1998-2009

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1903-1911

  Ortega García, Juan A ^a   López Hernández, Fernando A ^b   Fuster Soler, José L ^a   Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Brain tumor epidemiology; Central nervous system tumors; Childhood tumors; CNS tumor epidemiology; Medulloblastoma; Neuroblastoma; Temporo spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SPAIN;

EID: 80054722428     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-011-1483-0     Document Type: Article

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