TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer
A1  - Scheurer, Michael E.
A1  - Spector, Logan G.
A2  - Kline, Mark W.
PY  - 2018
T2  - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
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).  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/25
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182910834
ER  -