Treating children with cancer worldwide-challenges and interventions

Pediatrics

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 607-610

  Israels, Trijn ^a   Challinor, Julia ^b   Howard, Scott ^c   Arora, Ramandeep Harman ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d Max Super Specialty Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INCOME; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEPHROBLASTOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETINOBLASTOMA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; NEOPLASMS;

CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCOME; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84942920869     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-0300     Document Type: Article

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