ITALIAN CANCER FIGURES - REPORT 2012: Cancer in children and adolescents;I TUMORI IN ITALIA - RAPPORTO 2012: I tumori dei bambini e degli adolescenti

Epidemiologia e Prevenzione

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-296

  Pisani, Paola ^a   Buzzoni, Carlotta ^b   Crocetti, Emanuele ^b   Maso, Luigino Dal ^c   Rondelli, Roberto ^d   Alessi, Daniela ^a   Aric, Maurizio ^e   Bidoli, Ettore ^c   Ferrari, Andrea ^f   Fusco, Mario ^g   Gatta, Gemma ^f   Guzzinati, Stefano ^h   Jankovic, Momcilo ⁱ   Locatelli, Franco ^j   Maule, Milena ^k   Mosso, Maria Luisa ^a   Pastore, Guido ^a   Pession, Andrea ^d   Rashid, Ivan ^a   Sacerdote, Carlotta ^a   Terracini, Benedetto ^a   Tognazzo, Sandro ^h   Trama, Annalisa ^f   Ferretti, Stefano ^l   Porta, Fulvio ^l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Registro Tumori Toscano   (Italy)

^c CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^g Registro tumori di popolazione Regione Campania   (Italy)

^h VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

ⁱ SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^k NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GIOVANNI PAOLO II   (Italy)

^l NONE

more..

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cancer incidence; Children; Italy; Registries; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFTERCARE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AFTERCARE; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85006246964     PISSN: 11209763     EISSN: 23851937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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