The magnitude and predictors of abandonment of therapy in paediatric acute leukaemia in middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2555-2564

  Gupta, Sumit ^a   Yeh, Stacy ^b   Martiniuk, Alexandra ^c   Lam, Catherine G ^d   Chen, Heui Yang ^e   Liu, Yen Lin ^f   Tsimicalis, Argerie ^g   Arora, Ramandeep S ^h   Ribeiro, Raul C ^d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Child; Developing countries; Leukaemia; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84879322035     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2013.03.024     Document Type: Article

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