Management of children with a wilms tumor in Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 606-610

  Israels, Trijn ^a   Borgstein, Eric ^b   Pidini, Dalida ^b   Chagaluka, George ^b   De Kraker, Jan ^a   Kamiza, Steve ^b   Molyneux, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

abandonment; low income country; Sub Saharan Africa; toxicity; Wilms

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BILATERAL CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD CARE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DACTINOMYCIN; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DOXORUBICIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 84868660794     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3182580921     Document Type: Article

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