The founding of the European Cooperative Study Group on Pediatric Rare Tumors-EXPeRT

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-3

  Ferrari, Andrea ^a   Schneider, Dominik T ^b   Bisogno, Gianni ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Municipal Hospital Dortmund   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cancer; children; EXPeRT; orphan disease; rare tumors

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW;

CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUROPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RARE DISEASES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84871592095     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.12.155     Document Type: Review

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