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Liver Tumours

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Neoplasms of the liver are infrequent but not very rare in infancy and childhood [11]. Carcinoma of the liver is the third commonest abdominal cancer among Japanese children [18]. Although the prognosis for children with this tumour has generally been considered hopeless, recent reports [9, 16, 17] have disclosed that the operative results of malignant liver tumours, particularly liver-cell carcinoma, are much more favourable in children than in adults.

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London and Surrey, UK

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  2. Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey, UK

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  3. St.Peter’s Group of Urological Hospitals, London, UK

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  4. St. George’s Hospital, London, England

    H. Julian G. Bloom (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery) (Vice-Chairman, Consultant Radiotherapist, Hon. Consultant Radiotherapist (Neurosurgery)

  5. Department of Paediatrics, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

    Jean Lemerle

  6. First Paediatric Hospital, Augsburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    Malte K. Neidhardt (Chief) (Chief)

  7. Department of Paediatric Oncology, Emmakinderziekenhuis and Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Paul A. Voûte

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Kasai, M., Watanabe, I. (1975). Liver Tumours. In: Bloom, H.J.G., Lemerle, J., Neidhardt, M.K., Voûte, P.A. (eds) Cancer in Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96258-5_23

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