RT Book, Section
A1 Scheurer, Michael E.
A1 Spector, Logan G.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182910834
T1 Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182910834
RD 2024/04/19
AB According  to  the  American  Cancer  Society,  childhood  cancer  is  diagnosed  in  approximately  1  in  285  children  by  20  years  of  age,  with  an  estimated  15,780  cases  newly  diagnosed  in  2014.  After  the  first  year  of  life,  cancer  is  the  single  most  common  disease-related  cause  of  death  in  children.  In  2013  in  the  United  States,  there  were  9408  deaths  in  children  ages  1  to  14  years;  of  these,  5571  were  due  to  disease  and  22%  of  these  (1221)  were  due  to  cancer  (Fig.  440-1).