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Book cover Diagnosis and Management of Malignant Solid Tumors in Infants and Children

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 37))

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Malignant neoplasms are a major cause of mortality in children between 1 and 14 years of age. The death rate due to cancer was 45 per million children aged 1–4 years, and 43 per million children aged 5–14 years in 1980 82. Accidents and congenital anomalies were responsible for more deaths in the younger age group, whereas only accidents were a more frequent cause of death in the older age group (Table 1).

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Green, D.M. (1985). Introduction. In: Diagnosis and Management of Malignant Solid Tumors in Infants and Children. Developments in Oncology, vol 37. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2623-6_1

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