Survival from childhood cancer in northern England, 1968-2005

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1402-1408

  Basta, N O ^a   James, P W ^a   Gomez Pozo, B ^a   Craft, A W ^a   McNally, R J Q ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

childhood cancer; leukaemia; lymphoma; solid tumours; survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONAD TUMOR; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80055006962     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.341     Document Type: Article

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