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In the United States, every year, 12,000 children and adolescents less than 20 years old are diagnosed with cancer. Based on the experience gained in other national and international rare tumor groups, the COG Rare Tumor Committee chose to define infrequent tumors within the context of a pediatric population as those neoplasms, which are generally classified as other malignant epithelial neoplasms and melanomas in the International Classification of Childhood Cancer subgroup XI of the SEER database (Pappo et al. 2010).
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Pashankar, F.D., Rodriguez-Galindo, C. (2012). The United States. In: Schneider, D., Brecht, I., Olson, T., Ferrari, A. (eds) Rare Tumors In Children and Adolescents. Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04197-6_12
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