Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?

The burden of childhood cancer for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) is unknown. PCTs in Yorkshire are representative of England and Wales and show little heterogeneity in the incidence rates of childhood cancer. Each PCT will expect three to five newly diagnosed children per year. A single GP is likely to...

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Autores principales: Feltbower, R G, Lewis, I J, Picton, S, Richards, M, Glaser, A W, Kinsey, S E, McKinney, P A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2004
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Clinical
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2410280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15138465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601733
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author Feltbower, R G
Lewis, I J
Picton, S
Richards, M
Glaser, A W
Kinsey, S E
McKinney, P A
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description The burden of childhood cancer for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) is unknown. PCTs in Yorkshire are representative of England and Wales and show little heterogeneity in the incidence rates of childhood cancer. Each PCT will expect three to five newly diagnosed children per year. A single GP is likely to see an incident case once every 20 years.
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spelling pubmed-24102802009-09-10 Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation? Feltbower, R G Lewis, I J Picton, S Richards, M Glaser, A W Kinsey, S E McKinney, P A Br J Cancer Clinical The burden of childhood cancer for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) is unknown. PCTs in Yorkshire are representative of England and Wales and show little heterogeneity in the incidence rates of childhood cancer. Each PCT will expect three to five newly diagnosed children per year. A single GP is likely to see an incident case once every 20 years. Nature Publishing Group 2004-05-17 2004-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2410280/ /pubmed/15138465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601733 Text en Copyright © 2004 Cancer Research UK 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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Feltbower, R G
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Richards, M
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McKinney, P A
Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
title Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
title_full Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
title_fullStr Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
title_short Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
title_sort diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care – a realistic expectation?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2410280/
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