The contrasting age-incidence patterns of bone tumours in teenagers and young adults: Implications for aetiology

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1678-1685

  Arora, Ramandeep S ^a   Alston, Robert D ^b   Eden, Tim O B ^b   Geraci, Marco ^c   Birch, Jillian M ^b  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adolescents; bone neoplasms; England; incidence; young adults

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE CANCER; BONE GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CHONDROSARCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFANT; LEG; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864435400     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27402     Document Type: Article

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