A report about treatment refusal and abandonment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in China, 1997-2007

Leukemia Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1628-1631

  Wang, Yan rong ^a   Jin, Run ming ^b   Xu, Jia wei ^b   Zhang, Zhi quan ^b  

^a GUANGDONG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ALL; Reasons; Treatment refusal or abandonment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, ABANDONED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 80055118497     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: 18735835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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