Incidence and Pattern of Childhood Cancers in India: Findings from Population-based Cancer Registries

Childhood cancers have different characteristics than those occurring among adults and described as cancers occurring below 15 years of age. In developed countries, its incidence is relatively rare but it's a leading cause of death. More than 80% of the childhood cancers are occurring in low an...

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Autores principales: Bashar, MD Abu, Thakur, JS
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900342
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_163_16
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description Childhood cancers have different characteristics than those occurring among adults and described as cancers occurring below 15 years of age. In developed countries, its incidence is relatively rare but it's a leading cause of death. More than 80% of the childhood cancers are occurring in low and middle income countries. Based on data from population based cancer registries under National Cancer Registry Programme, in this commentary, we described the incidence and pattern of Childhood cancers in India and its implications.
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spelling pubmed-55825712017-09-12 Incidence and Pattern of Childhood Cancers in India: Findings from Population-based Cancer Registries Bashar, MD Abu Thakur, JS Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Short Communication Childhood cancers have different characteristics than those occurring among adults and described as cancers occurring below 15 years of age. In developed countries, its incidence is relatively rare but it's a leading cause of death. More than 80% of the childhood cancers are occurring in low and middle income countries. Based on data from population based cancer registries under National Cancer Registry Programme, in this commentary, we described the incidence and pattern of Childhood cancers in India and its implications. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5582571/ /pubmed/28900342 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_163_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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