Epidemiology of diagnosed childhood cancer in Western Kenya

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 508-512

  Mostert, Saskia ^a   Njuguna, Festus ^b   Kemps, Luc ^a   Strother, Matthew ^c   Aluoch, Louise ^b   Buziba, Gyabi ^b   Kaspers, Gertjan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MOI TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOMA; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KENYA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861482887     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2011-300829     Document Type: Article

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