Changes in presenting tumour site of Burkitt's lymphoma in Ghana, West Africa, 1965-1978.

Between 1965 and 1978, 430 cases of Burkitt's lymphoma were evaluated at the Burkitt Tumour Project, Accra, Ghana. During this period a change in the presenting features occurred, in which abdominal disease increased and facial disease decreased. This change was especially apparent in males, in...

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Autores principales: Biggar, R. J., Nkrumah, F. K., Neequaye, J., Levine, P. H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2010672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7248148
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author Biggar, R. J.
Nkrumah, F. K.
Neequaye, J.
Levine, P. H.
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description Between 1965 and 1978, 430 cases of Burkitt's lymphoma were evaluated at the Burkitt Tumour Project, Accra, Ghana. During this period a change in the presenting features occurred, in which abdominal disease increased and facial disease decreased. This change was especially apparent in males, in whom the proportion of cases with abdominal disease more than doubled (chi 2 time trend = 25.99, P = 0.00000017) We speculate that the change may be related to possible changes in BL incidence.
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spelling pubmed-20106722009-09-10 Changes in presenting tumour site of Burkitt's lymphoma in Ghana, West Africa, 1965-1978. Biggar, R. J. Nkrumah, F. K. Neequaye, J. Levine, P. H. Br J Cancer Research Article Between 1965 and 1978, 430 cases of Burkitt's lymphoma were evaluated at the Burkitt Tumour Project, Accra, Ghana. During this period a change in the presenting features occurred, in which abdominal disease increased and facial disease decreased. This change was especially apparent in males, in whom the proportion of cases with abdominal disease more than doubled (chi 2 time trend = 25.99, P = 0.00000017) We speculate that the change may be related to possible changes in BL incidence. Nature Publishing Group 1981-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2010672/ /pubmed/7248148 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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title_full Changes in presenting tumour site of Burkitt's lymphoma in Ghana, West Africa, 1965-1978.
title_fullStr Changes in presenting tumour site of Burkitt's lymphoma in Ghana, West Africa, 1965-1978.
title_full_unstemmed Changes in presenting tumour site of Burkitt's lymphoma in Ghana, West Africa, 1965-1978.
title_short Changes in presenting tumour site of Burkitt's lymphoma in Ghana, West Africa, 1965-1978.
title_sort changes in presenting tumour site of burkitt's lymphoma in ghana, west africa, 1965-1978.
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