Group Characteristics of Children with Cerebral and Spinal Cord Tumours

A study of 2072 children who developed cerebral or spinal cord tumours of varying degrees of malignancy before 15 years of age has shown that there is equally good representation of fatal and non-fatal cases in official registrations. Attack rates are higher for boys than girls and the prognosis is...

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Autores principales: Stewart, A. M., Lennox, E. L., Sanders, B. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1973
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2008935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4783157
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description A study of 2072 children who developed cerebral or spinal cord tumours of varying degrees of malignancy before 15 years of age has shown that there is equally good representation of fatal and non-fatal cases in official registrations. Attack rates are higher for boys than girls and the prognosis is better for girls than boys. The risk of an early death is negatively correlated with age at diagnosis, and the risk of a late death shows the opposite relationship. These observations and a relatively high incidence of hindbrain tumours are suggestive of an embryonic origin for most of the cases.
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spelling pubmed-20089352009-09-10 Group Characteristics of Children with Cerebral and Spinal Cord Tumours Stewart, A. M. Lennox, E. L. Sanders, B. M. Br J Cancer Articles A study of 2072 children who developed cerebral or spinal cord tumours of varying degrees of malignancy before 15 years of age has shown that there is equally good representation of fatal and non-fatal cases in official registrations. Attack rates are higher for boys than girls and the prognosis is better for girls than boys. The risk of an early death is negatively correlated with age at diagnosis, and the risk of a late death shows the opposite relationship. These observations and a relatively high incidence of hindbrain tumours are suggestive of an embryonic origin for most of the cases. Nature Publishing Group 1973-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2008935/ /pubmed/4783157 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Group Characteristics of Children with Cerebral and Spinal Cord Tumours
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