Socio-economic status plays important role in childhood cancer treatment outcome in indonesia

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6491-6496

  Mostert, Saskia ^a   Gunawan, Stefanus ^b   Wolters, Emma ^a   van de Ven, Peter ^a   Sitaresmi, Mei ^c   van Dongen, Josephine ^a   Veerman, Anjo ^a   Mantik, Max ^b   Kaspers, Gertjan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Pediatric Oncology Hematology   (Indonesia)

^c GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Adherence; Childhood cancer; Indonesia; Low income country; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INDONESIA; MALE; NEOPLASM; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDONESIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877072900     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.12.6491     Document Type: Article

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