Pediatric malignancies, treatment outcomes and abandonment of pediatric cancer treatment in zambia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Slone, Jeremy S ^a   Chunda Liyoka, Catherine ^b   Perez, Marta ^c   Mutalima, Nora ^d   Newton, Robert ^d,e   Chintu, Chifumbe ^b   Kankasa, Chipepo ^b   Chipeta, James ^b   Heimburger, Douglas C ^a,c   Vermund, Sten H ^a,c   Friedman, Debra L ^a,f  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^f VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER THERAPY; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DYING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEWBORN; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ZAMBIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84896799861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089102     Document Type: Article

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